Back from one of my most action-packed weeks ever – five days, five cities, four speaking gigs, then a weekend filled with birthday celebrations and sports. Finally catching my breath over Monday-morning eggs and coffee, thinking back to this incredible week, and realizing that the most impactful, memorable idea of the week came from […]
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I’ve been working on my keynote speaking for about 15 years. I’m not a master (yet), but that’s not for lack of effort. I’ve read books and had coaches, and I pepper great speakers with questions whenever I can. After a while the advice starts repeating itself: the first five seconds matter most; open your
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Narratives and Possibility :: Change the Life in Which You’re Living Last night I went to bed feeling down, despondent, discouraged. This morning as I suit up in a Washington, D.C., hotel room for the seven-hour workshop I am about to deliver, I am tingling with energy, excited, on fire. What caused this shift? My circumstances have
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I am staring through a wall of fog at the vague contours of an empty runway. Airplanes should fill this scene, but they can’t land. At 1:55 p.m., my flight status should read “Departed” but still reads “On Time.” Nothing here seems to be working. I want to quit and tell the 100 people scheduled to show up at
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I’m writing from a restaurant in the Mexico City airport, a plate of spicy fajitas in my belly. I’m tired yet satisfied from conducting three strategy workshops over three days in two countries. Though I have delivered versions of my Outthinker Process program perhaps a few hundred times now, today something was different. I was working with a
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