A Walker’s Christmas in Wales
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horse walking warm Out of the whinnying green stable On to the fields of praise. Dylan [...]
December 2018
May 2017
How to pitch your big, beautiful idea so everyone’s a winner.
You know you’re smart. You know your idea is brilliant. And you know you’re passionate about what you’re working on. So how come nobody else is buying what you’re selling? Maybe it’s not the ideas [...]
February 2015
Speaking at South by Southwest
The nice folks who put on the SXSW Conference in Austin have invited me to speak and do a reading from my new book, The Downside of Up. It's fun to be part of the [...]
April 2014
You Are What You Read #4: The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan
Yasushi Inoue’s remarkable historical novel, The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan, was first published in Japan in 1958. In it, we follow the rise of a mysterious, itinerant samurai named Yamamoto Kansuke, whom Inoue describes [...]
March 2014
You Are What You Read #3: Unconscious Branding
How Neuroscience Can Empower (and Inspire) Marketing In 1957, Advertising Age created mass-hysteria across the nation when it published the results of a scientific study on subliminal advertising. The study, conducted by market researcher James [...]
January 2014
The Revolution Inside: The Two Questions that Will Rock Your World
This week, millions of people are making their New Year’s Resolutions but the sad fact is that, according to The Journal of Clinical Psychology, only eight percent of them will be successful in achieving their [...]
November 2013
The Success of the Intervention
"The success of an intervention depends on the inner condition of the intervener." Bill O'Brien former CEO, Hanover Insurance As you're asking your leaders to be innovators, talent developers and culture builders, it's important, I [...]
October 2013
Just Say Yes — Leadership Lessons from Improv Comedy
Improv comedy isn't about great writing or carefully crafted characters. It's about being fully present, in the moment and fearless. It's about being ready for anything. About being accepting. About staying loose. And being so [...]