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The importance of slowing down to reflect
October 14, 2022Over the past few posts, we have seen that Nelson Mandela’s quiet reflection in his prison cell led to a...
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Time for reflection and good wishes
December 29, 2017As I often do this time of year, I am taking a week off from writing the blog. My...
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To slide or not to slide: reflections on PowerPoint
October 11, 2017This week, I was thinking about writing something more about our recent themes—polarization, the power of story, or the...
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I will miss Lucy Kellaway
August 9, 2017My post today is a bit of a departure from the sort of topic I usually write about. It...
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But can he run a country?
January 27, 2017There is a scene near the beginning of the movie Invictus in which a newly-elected President Nelson Mandela leaves home for his morning...
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Hillary Clinton’s failure was as a storyteller
December 16, 2016As we saw in our previous post, Barack Obama used his personal stories—uplifting and aspirational tales garnered from his own...
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The stories we shape will also shape us
June 23, 2016This week, one of my favorite reflections about storytelling—from the recently departed British novelist Terry Pratchett (1948-2015)—came to mind:...
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The best speeches have elements of improvisation
May 30, 2016After last week’s post, I did some more reading about Barack Obama’s use of the teleprompter. It turns out...
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Association and assimilation
April 29, 2016The coaching I do with individuals often involves sifting through their life experience in an effort to identify their...
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Unexpected revelations from within
April 22, 2016Every so often, I make a discovery—have a revelation, as some would say—that really should not be one. In other...