I just finished co-chairing (with the truly amazing Ruby Newell-Legner) a major conference for my professional organization, the National Speakers Association (NSA). By all accounts, it was a huge success (which translates, of course, into huge relief for me!). In the three days since the event ended, I’ve spent some time trying to discern what it was that made the conference so successful.
Yes, we had some truly great speakers and presenters. Yes, the format flowed ...
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As a professional speaker, I spend a lot of time in airports. In fact, I just returned from about two weeks on the road, and I noticed something interesting about people when they’re in airports. What I noticed was this:
We spend far too much time trying to avoid failure. It drives many (maybe even most) of our decisions—at least the bigger ones.
