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Year-End Gift: 2025- You Get to Choose Your Game. Choose Wisely.
As the calendar again offers a fresh start, I’m reflecting on the games we play, their rules, and the element of chance. Is it all just a roll of the dice?
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Year-End Gift 2024: The Story of Time
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Year-End Gift 2022: The Experiment of Life
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Sam Zell, My Mentor (and His Two Final Gifts to Me)
Sam Zell was an iconoclastic risk-taker, adventurer, contrarian, industrialist, and quite simply one of the great entrepreneurs of our time. For me, Sam Zell was my mentor. And less than two months before his passing, he gave me two precious gifts.
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Year-End Gift: 2021 – What Will You Do?
Don’t worry about what you can’t answer, and don’t try to explain what you can’t know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren’t you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality?
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Year-End Gift: 2020 – It Starts With An Idea
Everything begins with an idea. The truth is, it’s not about the idea. It’s about what you do with it, whether you set it free. Ideas shape the course of history.
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9 Takeaways from 9 Years of Chicago Ideas
The foundational design of Chicago Ideas is in sync with these times in which we find ourselves.
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Two Pillars for Effective Remote Work: Asynchronous Clarity & Visible Value
We are ten months into this everlong 2020. One hundred and thirty years ago, a German playwright first coined the phrase “Spring Awakening” as the title of his breakthrough play, first performed in 1891. It’s a phrase that comes to mind. It’s lingered in mine since March. This fall, our world is still awakening from…
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Being “In Integrity” with Yourself and Others
I first learned about integrity from my parents, often in reaction to testing the rules — in particular, I remembered “borrowing” something from home and taking it into my third-grade classroom for show-and-tell, mistakenly leaving it at school, and then claiming ignorance of its whereabouts.
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How We Overcomplicate Getting Better
I’d like to propose playing a game at work. For the sake of naming it, let’s call it the “Get Better At” game. The rules are simple: 1. Find a specific area/activity in which you or the team you’re a part of can get better. 2. Immediately develop a plan to get better. 3. Get…