Need help falling asleep at night? I suggest listening to recordings of presentations given every day at most corporations.
Most business presentations are stunningly boring because speakers are driven by a powerful unconscious motivation: Avoid Embarrassment!
Like the sports team that “plays not to lose” by implementing a “prevent defense,” the average business presentation is organized [...]
A Perfect Book/Multi-Media Experience to Initiate 2010!
In the Spring of 2009 I spoke at the International Conference on Science and Consciousness. One of the benefits of speaking at this remarkable event is the opportunity to attend sessions given by other presenters. I particularly enjoyed the workshops given by Dr. Jean Houston, Dr. Leonard [...]
In a capitalist society, business sets the social tone and, ultimately, influences the values and spiritual life of the culture at large, for better or worse. In today’s world, societal development is a function of business and organizational development. As leadership guru Warren Bennis advises: “Because the organization is the primary form of the era, [...]
I confess that I enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s phenomenal international best seller. Her blend of culinary celebration, spiritual exploration and romantic emancipation takes us from Italy to India and on to Indonesia. Gilbert’s humor, vulnerability and engaging writing style have made her book a benchmark in the travel/memoir category.
Explorer, lyricist and theatrical [...]
My friend, Michael Port just sent me an advance copy of The Think Big Manifesto, his 4th book.
The Think Big Manifesto is Michael’s best work yet.
His subtitle represents a challenge and an invitation to all of us: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again.
It is a clarion call to use [...]
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and working with Sir Ken Robinson on a number of occasions. The first time was in Rome when we both addressed a Young President’s Organization University. The last time was when Ken served as the Master of Ceremonies for Catalyzing Conscious Capitalism in Austin, Texas, last [...]
I was blessed to meet Meg Wheatley, Ph.D. when we shared the podium at an innovation conference last year. Meg is the author of one of my favorite books on leadership, the groundbreaking best seller: Leadership and The New Science. She is a passionate and gifted proponent of humanistic values and the creative [...]
Jill Badonsky, author of The Nine Modern Day Muses (and a Bodyguard): 10 Guides to Creative Inspiration for Artists, Poets, Lovers, and Other Mortals Wanting to Live a Dazzling Existence has released a new and wonderful work called The Awe-manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder. This book is a fabulous resource for creative living and [...]
Karen Page is a Harvard MBA and the former chairperson of the Harvard Business School Women’s Alumni Association. Andrew Dornenburg, is a world class chef who cooked with Anne Rosenzweig at Arcadia. Together, they are the James Beard Award winning authors of Becoming a Chef and 8 other outstanding books on food and wine. [...]
When I began leading seminars for companies in the late 1970s my vision was rather idealistic: I wanted to help businesses become more creative and humanistic as a means to serving the greater good. Of course, I learned quickly that creativity and humanism had to go hand-in-hand with profitability. So, I devoted [...]