What Kind of World Do You Want?
Big ideas and proven strategies to create the future you desire ... with Jim Lord
Here’s something to think about this week … If you really want to influence people, involve them instead of merely trying to inform them. You already know this. I started out as a communicator, a broadcaster and then a newspaper writer, and so I had this desire to inform. Then, I got really interested in… Click to continue »
Vibha — who uses only her first name in defiance of India’s caste system — wrote this week with a great story. She’s the founder of the nonprofit organization Muskaan (translation: “smile”) in Lucknow, India, and an alum of the Quest workshop and Leadership Program. Vibha told me how she’s using the new audiobook version… Click to continue »
Last week a leader – someone I hold in the highest regard — told me he’d winced to see me urging people to generate “the largest contribution in your history.” My first reaction? Moist eyes. I saw in my mind … Click to continue »
Hear from Marcela Rovzar, accomplished philanthropist and civic leader, about keeping dreams alive and reaching higher. (And overcoming burnout along the way.) Click to continue »
A book can contribute to achieving your Big Idea, your highest aspiration. After all, there’s nothing quite like a book to influence people. Here’s a tip to get you started. Click to continue »
On Friday I asked you if you could identify one thing that encourages you in your pursuit of the impossible. But I didn’t do it for myself. After all, I “got it.” And who has the time for such nonsense? Then I thought, “Let’s see what happens if I do it, instead of thinking about it.” Click to continue »
We have the power to point organizations toward what they have, rather than what they lack … toward their resources and capacities, rather than their needs and deficits. In this way, we can encourage them to rise to new levels of worth and accomplishment. Click to continue »
This week I have the privilege of spending time with Sahadev Mahat, who’s doing extraordinary work all over his home country of Nepal. Here’s a glimpse into just one aspect of his influence on others. Click to continue »
What we talk about becomes “the way things are” — and the way things can be. We are limited or liberated by those invisible agreements. (Until, we rebel, that is.) Click to continue »
Could it be that the words we speak each day, often without thought, can be of historic importance? They just may be, especially in times like these. Click to continue »
In the pages of What Kind of World Do You Want? you’ll find proven ways to enliven civic life, ignite confidence, and inspire people to act.
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