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Seven Principles for Taking Charge of Your Future
I’ve just returned from a life-changing workshop. It was the first annual “Indie Books International Family and Friends Forum,” organized by Henry DeVries and Mark LeBlanc (Mark’s on the left) for...
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Stop Trying to Predict the Future; Just Ask “What if?”
I’ve written many times about the challenges we all face trying to predict the future. Just last week I offered “Seven Principles for Taking Charge of Your Future.” None of them involves predicting...
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Sell Holes, Not Drills
There’s an article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle that made me remember a cute story about sharing – or not: Tommy and Johnny were four-year-old twins. One day they were playing on the floor when...
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What’s in YOUR Future?
These days it feels as if there is a story about another new technology on every other page of every other newspaper or magazine, or – more appropriately – every other website or tweet. We all know how...
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Creating Conversations That Matter
“Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organization may make in renewal is to begin talking with other...
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Nine Rules for Leading a Constructive Conversation
Smart leaders in 2017 don’t design good conversations, they orchestrate them. What do I mean by that? For me, Design is a creative process that begins with the end in mind and identifies the resources...
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Orchestrating Conversations about the Future
As I say almost every week: Smart leaders in 2017 don’t design good conversations, they orchestrate them. I’ve also commented often that organizational leaders spend very little time thinking or...
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Leadership Lessons from Steve Kerr
(AP Photo/Ben Margot) The subtitle of my most recent book (Making Meetings Matter) is “How Smart Leaders Orchestrate Powerful Conversations in the Digital Age.” The key words in that phrase are...
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Summertime, and the livin’ is …[?]
This note is going to be short, although I have been writing it in my head for the last two weeks. To be blunt, I need some time off. I’ve just come out of eight months or so of incredibly intense,...
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Best Wishes for the Holidays!
Last May I announced I was going to take a “sabbatical” for several months to recharge my batteries, refocus my energy, and just plain recover from being on the go 24×7 for way too many years. Well,...
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