Gave a speech at the SEA Conference on Drury Campus . Bunch of great folks, who were so engaged and played wonderfully with my presentation. If you could work with people like this on a consistent basis you’d never feel like you were putting in work.
Giving a talk tomorrow night about how to react in this economy to Strategic Inflection Points that are facing us in the marketplace. But, instead of taking the point of view of what business should be doing to solve “What’s Next” in their world I am presenting my ideas from what YOU should do to answer what’s next.
The more time I spend working with companies the more I realize that companies don’t do jack! People, however do revolutionize our world and the marketplace with it. My talk will be aimed at people who can change themselves and the companies they decide to align themselves with.
The entire presentation will be online tonight or in the AM via my Slideshare
My Version of Homo Evolutis - completely original? NO?
Impossible as it may sound, here is a version of TED 2009 if you only had one hour to spark conversation and were recapping it to a creative bunch of people who wanted to hear about the highlights – but lacked the 4 days to recreate the event. By the way…I would have liked to discuss more and more of the content and the people that I met there but we’ll save those discussions as we move along through the year, and keep them personal and offline. Anymore content you need go to TED.com for the official skinny.
My personal philosophy when it comes to public speaking is to “leave ‘em up, or put ‘em up”.
Leave them up – make sure you leave your audience on a high note. Give them hope, something to aspire towards and a collective goal we all can shoot towards. This is my favorite way to present information. Give people hope no matter what the odds/circumstances/or potential outcomes may be. We as a culture, now more than ever need hope and aspirational goals. I seem to get the best response from forward thinking people when I present my information in this way.
However, if you clearly aren’t going to get a positive response from your efforts I say walk out and “Put ‘em Up”. Not the most PC thing I’ve said in a long time, but truly cathartic in nature and function.