You have so many ways to connect with a potential mentor—social media messaging, watching speeches on YouTube, suggesting a 15-minute video call at whatever time of day best suits them.

November 8, 2019

While societal alarm bells are ringing about robots and rampaging machines, our group settled into a generally optimistic place, avoiding the typical discussions on which professions lose and which gain

November 7, 2019

It’s the poetry that happens when you start to wake up and see the world as it could be. Of course, the challenge with any transformative experience is that eventually

November 6, 2019

having a Modern Elder by his side, with expertise in the industry that Airbnb was disrupting, widened his aperture with respect to understanding their business opportunity. How can you widen

November 5, 2019

Of course, in today’s era of Airbnb and Uber scaling globally virtually overnight, this tenet may feel quaint and old-school, but I still think it’s valuable. Stewart invited me to

November 4, 2019

While my memories of that day are opaque, I can still see in my mind’s eye the dream-like image that was swirling around my brain when I awoke in the

November 3, 2019

For decades, our respective generations have operated like isolated countries with different dialects on the same continent. We share a border, but don’t necessarily trust each other enough to share

November 2, 2019

During my time at Airbnb, when I unwittingly was as much an intern as a mentor, I came face-to-face with the word “liminality,” which describes the ambiguity and disorientation one

November 1, 2019

It’s not its laser-sharp night vision or the fact that it can do the Linda Blair 360-degree swivel of its head, or even that it cocks its noggin in a

October 31, 2019

The five researchers studied 10,000 managers and found that management style varied more with age than any other characteristic, such as organizational position or gender. In other words, diversity is

October 30, 2019

Many brilliant young founders could use a Modern Elder or two to help mentor their young leaders and guide their rocket ships. Somehow we expect these unseasoned entrepreneurs to miraculously

October 29, 2019

Context is everything. The rule of thumb for social media videos is to keep them less than 2 minutes. And, yet, there’s a plethora of podcasters aping my friend Tim

October 28, 2019