The greater risk

I recently read a book titled Exploiting Chaos by Jeremy Gutsche.  In the book, Jeremy writes, “If you want to encourage me to create breakthrough innovation, I need to feel protected.  I need to know that I am better off trying new ideas and possibly failing...

Home with a view

I just read this in The Week . . . Mukesh Ambani, an Indian petrochemical magnate, has built the world’s first billion-dollar residence, in Mumbai.  The 27-story skyscraper, towering over the slums downtown, has 400,000 square feet of space and such amenities as...

Best reads 2010

So far in 2010 I’ve read 55 books.  Some good, some bad.  More good than bad.  Here are the best . . . For improvement Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott. “A fierce conversation is one in which we come out from behind ourselves into the conversation and...

Random thanks giving

I am thankful for my climbing companions who will be summiting Cotopaxi with me in January (www.climb4kids.org). I am thankful for Terry Hunka and ChildReach ministries who continue to blaze frontline trails to care for children at risk in Ecuador and Peru. I am...

Lifemapping

This past week Julie and I spent several days in Boulder, Colorado with an amazing man named Pete Richardson.  We were specifically in Boulder for a very intense session of Lifemapping. After two nine hour days of looking at God’s work in our lives, discovering...