Welcome to the May issue of The Exponential Executive.

In this Issue

	Coached for Life
	Unlearning 101: Start an Anti-Library
	Jump the Curve Strategy #14: Stop Acting Your Age

In Other News

This week, I will be traveling to Wisconsin to give a presentation on the "38 Ways Long-Term Care & Senior Housing Will Be Transformed in the Coming Decade." For a peek at what I'll be sharing with my audience, click here.

If you are in the banking, health care, real estate or travel industries, click on the associated link for some insight into the future of your industry. 

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Coached for Life

This newsletter typically views the issue of leadership through the prism of technological change.  As important as that perspective may be, I understand real change occurs only through the actions of people and, in the true sense of the term "exponential," those leaders who are most successful -- i.e. those leaders who are "Exponential Executives" -- are instrumental in instructing others on becoming leaders themselves. In this sense, an exponential executive's legacy and influence expands in direct proportion to the number of people they reach directly through their mentoring.

This is why I am so pleased to report that after six long years my latest book, Coached for Life, (co-written with Ed Flaherty) has finally been published. The book is the true life account of how two high school football coaches not only molded an undistinguished group of players into state champions but, more important, instilled in them the principles that transformed their lives after that fateful football season in ways which are profound, moving, beautiful and inspiring. In the truest sense, the two coaches were "Exponential Executives" extraordinare.

John Gagliardi, college football’s winningest coach, writes that “Coached for Life reminds us all of the important work of our profession and serves as a tangible reminder that in the game of life, America’s coaches and teachers have compiled more ‘wins’ than most of us will ever recognize.” Bobby Bowden, head coach of the two-time NCAA football champions, Florida State Seminoles, says “Coached for Life captures the essence of what it means to be a coach;” and President Emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, Theodore Hesburgh, writes “the book serves to remind us why ‘coach’ is a lifetime honorific.”

At its heart, the book is a testament to the profoundly positive impact coaches, teachers and counselors have on students. If you would like  to learn more about Coached for Life, please visit www.coachedforlife.com. The book will make a wonderful graduation or Father's Day gift for the "Exponential Executive" in your life.

Unlearning 101: Start an Anti-Library

What you don't know is often just as -- if not -- more important than what you do know. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that I am announcing the creation of www.unlearning101.com, a complimentary website to my regular website. My first unlearning lesson is to start an anti-library. If you want to know what an anti-library is I invite you to watch this video.

If you'd like to know more about unlearning, this fast-paced (slightly foul-mouthed) 5-minute video which I recently gave before 500 people at the first-ever Ignite Minneapolis will serve as an excellent primer. If you want to "learn" more about unlearning, I also invite you to unlearn your worldview and unlearn your mindset.

Jump the Curve Strategy #14: Stop Acting Your Age

Many adults tend to think of play as an indulgence or, worse, a frivolous waste of time. I don’t know where this idea came from or when it first began creeping into popular culture, but to take advantage of the exponential economy, exponential executives must disabuse themselves of this notion.

Play has consistently been found to reduce stress, increase energy levels, brighten people’s outlook, increase optimism, and foster creativity. All are worthy goals and can help individuals do their jobs better, so the question is: Why don’t we play more? (Read the whole article).