1: Let’s go back in time to when you were dating. Perhaps that is you right now.

“Now, what happens to you when you go out on your first date?” Erik Peterson and Tim Riesterer ask in their powerful book Conversations That Win the Complex Sale.

Let’s say you start talking about yourself. And you keep talking about yourself. You spend the whole date talking about yourself.

What’s going … continue reading

I currently have the privilege of participating in the Stagen Leadership Academy’s Advanced Leadership Program.  The name of the program is “The Dragon’s Gap” which refers to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey.  Each of us in the program is encouraged to embark on our own hero’s journey.  The first step is “the call to adventure.”

In the Stagen program, we are assigned a coach who we meet with once … continue reading