Friday I held a special event for the CEOs and visionary leaders within my professional community in Washington, DC. It was an extraordinary affair, though it was not the pomp that made it so. We had plenty to snack on, but the real substance was the people who attended. In this picture with me from […]
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Is there someone close to you that you would like to have a heart-to-heart with? This last weekend, over the American Thanksgiving holiday, I had several remarkable conversations with family members who were visiting. These are people I have known a long time, close family. But, we don’t see each other face-to-face more than twice
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Which is more important to get right, content or process? Is it better to do the right thing or do things right? Well, there are plenty of times where one or the other is most important, but in the vast majority of cases you have to get both right or you will suffer. This weekend
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Please listen and comment below the video. Partisan posts will be deleted. Please let me hear your thoughts on how best to prepare for the Trump administration. -Seth
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After I leased my first BMW I decided I wanted to find a way to improve my driving, but not the basics. This was about 7 years ago so I was around fifty. Just after I got my car I received a post card asking if I would like to test drive a BMW against
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I love some of the methodologies out there for achieving organizational goals, and I enjoy reading when an author has a different angle on the best ways to set and pursue them. I also love personal goal setting and at any one time I have a set of my own that I am working on.
In the photo you see some of the current participants in my Visionary Leadership Academy standing in front of the Albert Einstein memorial in downtown DC. Last week we went on a sojourn to visit Albert along with Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr – all visionaries ahead of their time. We
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In my experience over 90% of resistance to change can be diffused by listening and framing the change in ways resisters can understand and support. See what I mean in this 2-minute video:Â VisionaryTalk.com Professional Development Opportunities Visionary Leadership Academy still Open This year-long class for senior execs is now full, but I could squeeze one
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In the attached picture my faithful Sita is helping me clean my office even though she can’t discern when it’s a mess and when it’s not. As long as we are together she is good… and so am I! So much of family and friendship is simply being close to each other. Of course it
I had a vision the other night. No kidding. It was odd because I wasn’t enjoying life when it happened and I didn’t realize the vision was important until the next day. Here’s what happened: I awoke at 4:30am. Sometimes that happens to me – I wake up really early and cannot go back to
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