On the Beach, While the World Burns
Eden, Australia – December 31, 2019: Tourists, a father and daughter at the beach in Eden by the evacuation center. (Joachim Zens) In the winter of 1961, my family moved to Frankston, a [...]
Eden, Australia – December 31, 2019: Tourists, a father and daughter at the beach in Eden by the evacuation center. (Joachim Zens) In the winter of 1961, my family moved to Frankston, a [...]
John Sebastian (c) Baron Wolman On August 10th, I'm hosting a conversation on stage in Santa Fe featuring two legends of Woodstock: John Morris, who was the festival's Head of Production and Baron [...]
I didn’t go to praise Nazis. I went to bury them. I didn’t know much. I was a naive college sophomore who could talk about Euripides and the Beatles but not much else. But I [...]
A speech to the CEO Communications Summit, Montreal, June 14, 2017 We’re here to talk about the communication of leadership, about the relationship between CEOs and their communicators and what that relationship means in the [...]
(C’est incroyable, mais hier j’étais drôle en français.) I started studying French in 7th Grade, or maybe it was 6th. It’s hard to tell because it was the year my parents moved us to Australia [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MW7Jglw7bU Wow! What an unexpected honor. My speech, The Downside of Up: The Outrageous Fortune of Being a Speechwriter, was just named the 2016 Grand Award winner. The Cicero Awards are an international recognition of [...]
Everybody loves a good night’s sleep but, done right, the way you sleep can also give you a better day of getting things done. Dr. Amy Cuddy has extendED her research of power poses to [...]
I had a great few days at SXSW meeting some fellow authors, listening to a few speakers and wandering around the exhibits. A funny moment was in the green room when I getting ready to [...]
If not, get the SXSW special offer on the book. I'm on stage at 4:00 p.m. (Ballroom G) then signing books in the SXSW Bookstore at 4:30. But you don't have to be in Austin [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting Stan Slap last week and getting an advance copy of his new book, Under The Hood: Fire Up and Fine-Tune Your Employee Culture. Stan spoke at a meeting of [...]