It’s been staggering to witness the damage in NYC where I live—the subways flooded, huge trees uprooted and plucked like a weed, then smashed into homes, the city pitch black in sections…my friends without heat….and in Long Island, Staten Island and New Jersey…treasured homes ripped, sliced, and burned to the ground. It’s devastating. We need …
One of the actions I encourage my clients to take is to spend time with people outside their area of expertise—those who are excelling in businesses different from their own. The opportunities for learning in these environments—if you observe, absorb, ask great questions and listen—is extraordinary. Professionals get entrenched in their industry the way married …
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I was lucky enough on Friday night to be at the film screening of “Life of Pi” which opened the 50th Anniversary of the New York Film Festival. It is a cinematic achievement — like nothing I’ve seen before — and throughout, from titles to cuts, Lee develops new ways of telling a story. …
It is so easy these days to get pulled into the non-stop flow of work, spinning from email to email, conference call to conference call, meeting to meeting. Business whirs along, zipping you into a Cuisinart blender…a communication frenzy. This week I was in 4 cities, on many planes, quite a few highways, multiple meetings …
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In thinking what I might post tonight, I found this piece I wrote a few weeks ago. We live in a culture—and to some degree—a world obsessed with goals and decisions. Deciding—some believe—is the clarion call to greatness. It puts us in a tizzy. So if we aren’t clear, somehow we are “less than”… We …
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We often think of communication as speaking or writing, showing someone a sign or a signal…but ultimately, it’s about creating an experience through which information is shared. I went out last night in NYC with my family to see the play TRIBES which is truly exceptional. And it was exceptional as a theater experience …
A number of years ago, someone in my audience shared with me this great line: “What comes from the heart goes into the heart.” I’ll never forget it. And I believe it’s true. We can tell when a speaker is coming from their heart and it goes right into our own. I had the privilege …
I’m here in Indianapolis at the NSA (National Speakers Association) National convention and have been talking with my colleagues over the past few days. Running a business as a speaker, solopreneur, consultant or even as a small training company is not an easy job…and this is a group of very motivated people. So I’m always …
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I’m just back from Venice, Italy…a family pilgrimage of sorts…and was lucky enough to visit the Peggy Guggenheim museum while there. (Envision a miniature Metropolitan Museum on the water.) What struck me the most was the distinctness of each artist’s style. And though I’ve visited many museums in my life, that distinctness stood out more …
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It’s Father’s Day, and I’m just back from visiting my 85-year old Dad who lives across town (here in NYC) and who is one of my closest friends.We were always close, but got much closer after my mother died 10 years ago. That closeness didn’t happen by accident, though. I put in the time; I …
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