What message did it leave?

“No more meetings, I promise. Please come back.” • • • “Help! The robots have turned on us!” • • • “Don’t be a worker, be an owner.”

How stupid is business? Apparently, very.

And I’ve come to the conclusion that one of the biggest things holding us back is leaders who look like me — late-40s-plus white males. (Full disclosure: I am well past late 40s!) And the one thing that will unleash the greatest revolution in human capacity, ever…is a LOT more women leaders.

Most common challenge for most leaders: We have met the enemy and he is us.

So, I’m doing a webinar on
How to Lead, Work and
Manage in a Disruptive
World. About 50 attendees.
All senior executives from all
around the globe, most
reporting directly into the
C-suite.

As I’m discussing the need to
speak up, ask tough questions
and be willing to fail forward,
one of the executives asks
“How do we get the CEO and
his team to accept this? Can
we change them from the
bottom up?”

I’m thinking (but didn’t say):
“Really? You got to this point
in your career and in your
company and you’re STILL

“We are capable of so much more than we think we are.”

That’s Roz Savage, the first
woman to row, solo, across
three oceans — Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.
“At first, I was very materialistic.

I went into management consulting in an era when greed was good and lunch was for wimps. I thought that was what I wanted, that that would make me happy.

“What really brought it home to me was that I wasn’t on the right path was when I wrote two versions of my own obituary. I imagined I was at the end of my life, looking back. The first version was the one that I wanted and the second one was where I was headed for. I wanted a life of meaning and adventure and