My eyes are still blurred from three days on the road and a “red eye” too short to sleep through, and one dilemma keeps resurfacing in my thoughts and in numerous conversations this week. When should you believe and when should you pivot? Seth Godin wrote about the “dip” – that long lull of […]
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How Hard Should You Push? I’m on a flight home from Denver, my mind twirling over a contradiction. A conversation I had sparked a question: does innovation pull or push? For years I have believed innovation is a “pull” activity. You put something out into the world and if it is something the world needs,
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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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