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Join The #HeroesWearMasks Challenge And Make A Difference In Your Community
It has been highlighted recently by many public health experts that cloth face coverings are one of the most powerful weapons we currently have as a country to slow the spread of COVID-19. This critical information has helped increase the use of mask wearing among...
Has This Pandemic Changed How You View Time?
“What is a week-end?” As the humorous line in British series Downton Abbey reminds us, the Industrial Revolution brought about more than machines: it fundamentally altered how society perceived time on a mass level. Weekends came into existence. It was the start of...
Why I’d like to start a movement to educate people on how to think holistically, and then validate facts
Democracy is in peril because people don’t know what to believe anymore, and because they don’t know what to believe, they accept whatever’s presented to and convenient for them. That means we don’t have an understanding of common truth and fact, and democracies...
Why Every Leader Needs to Become a Campaign Manager
Now, more than ever, we have to figure out how to get stuff done and how to be smart about it. Both professionally and personally, our lives will inevitably change moving forward, the only certainty is that we must be ready to face it. Thinking differently is part of...
Post Crisis Business Ideas: Create New Ways of Thinking With a Mixed Table
“Two heads are better than one,” is an axiom for a reason. In today’s specialized world, we are encouraged to have a laser focus on our individual areas of expertise. Although such specialization is a critical component of our education system; there is a high risk of...
The Leadership Podcast: Prisoners of Our Own Perspective
I recently had the privilege to join the wonderful team over at The Leadership Podcast to discuss leadership and a slew of other topics. Here are some of the takeaways, along with the full recording below. The Leadership Podcast - We Study Leaders · TLP206: Prisoners...
How the Coronavirus Could Lead to a New Renaissance
The future has never been guaranteed. Even so, we’ve taken it for granted, and have avoided preparing in government, our businesses, and society in general. We tend to “work in,” not “work on,” managing too many crises and tasks to tackle the tough questions about the...
How Poets and Scientists Can Help Society Heal From Disruption
We need to take a page from history here and borrow the tools that brought us the Renaissance. Let’s bring in the artists and the poets while we meet with the captains of industry and chart a course for a new world that will make us and future generations proud....
How to Run a Campaign With Firewall
I discuss the art of a campaign approach: how do we prepare mentally? Tactically? What defines a campaign?
How a ’sci-fi‘ imagination and Hollywood-style creativity can help sluggish businesses tackle big problems
John Rogers is an author, former CEO, and founder of RL Leaders, a consulting team that solves complex challenges for public and private sector organizations. He says many major business fail for one reason: rigidity of thought. These companies, that were once...