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Total Connectivity Future – Culminating Opportunities and Challenges
The Economist report on Our Nomadic Future begins: “SOMETIMES the biggest changes in society are the hardest to spot precisely because they are hiding in plain sight. It could well be that way with wireless communications. Something that people think of as just another technology is beginning to show signs of changing lives, culture, politics, cities, jobs, even marriages dramatically. In particular, it will usher...
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The Making of A Storyteller
This is a conversation about the power of storytelling. “Let’s bring back the dinner table conversation” is one of many messages from David McCullough. In art, business or anything – “The only way to learn to do it is by doing it.” This one life is the real thing, not the dress rehearsal for another time. David McCullough’s story is the making of a great...
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Intuition – How To Develop It?
Josh asked how to develop intuition, how to refine the ‘intuitive voice’ and how to maintain the internal intuitive conversation. These are great questions. At the bottom of this post I’ll make the first suggestion. Let’s first say this – the ideal setting is to work into these questions live, in an intuition workshop retreat. We can then go beyond what can be done here...
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Decision Making – What’s Better?
What’s better than making decisions? What is more fun, more powerful and more creative than getting up in the morning and thinking that what you’ve got to do today is to make decisions? Making decisions is great but even more fun, more energizing and more creative is to have the mindset that today you don’t need to make decisions – that today your endeavor is...
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The Biggest Change Ever – When Adding One Means Adding Ten
Can you think about a situation when adding one means adding ten? Take a moment to think about this conundrum before you read on. Don’t cheat. Did you find the answer? Well, here it is… When your first child is born. I first became aware of this change a few months after our son was born 20 years ago (1987). No one alerted me to...
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“Change Is An Endeavor, It’s A Real Enterprise”
Here are a few quotes from a Harvard Business Review conversation with Twyla Tharp. These sweat beads of wisdom go beyond art. She captures the essentials of any dedicated endeavor. “…everyone can be creative, but you have to prepare for it with routine. There’s no other way around it. It’s an absolute mistake to think that art is not practical—or that business cannot be creative....
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Rituals – Part Three
Opening the door is a ritual. Shaking hands is a ritual. Taking your vitamins can be a ritual. A family dinner can be a ritual. Showering is a ritual. Counting your blessings is a ritual. Saying “thank you” is a ritual. What makes all of these a ritual is the intention in your action. There are many kinds of rituals. Rituals serve and help you...
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Working With “Olympic Champions” – A Consultant Journal
One of the best things about my work is that I meet with brilliant people. They are world class; they are smart and intelligent; the “Olympic Champions” of their field. Real champions love truth, learning, wisdom and growth more than they love their last success. If you show them a way to become even better they will take it any time, any day and without...
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Rituals – The Magnifying Glass
Remember how you played with a magnifying glass as a child and directed the sun’s rays to focus on a piece of paper until it caught fire? The magnifying glass brought the rays to a point of concentration. Concentrated light rays brought enough energy to cause heating and a change of state of the paper. A ritual is a magnifying glass you use to bring...
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Delegating Is Not Dumping – A Consultant Journal
Each seminar, each group, each strategy session brings forward lessons, insights and new articulation and power. This is the hallmark of transformational work. You are made anew in the process. You clarify your goals, connect with a sense of purpose and step into a more authentic place. If we are not blessed by this kind of energy it means we are failing to step into...
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