One of the more interesting stories in the future-of-work conversation is not that older executives want people back in the office. That story has been told so often it has become predictable. The more interesting story is that some younger workers may want, or at least need, more of the office than we expected. Recent…
A former CMO once told me he had a quiet way of judging meetings. He listened for how much of the conversation was about the past and how much was about the future. The present, he said, was implicit: the decision in front of us, the issue on the table, the work to be done…
In the musical Brigadoon, a village appears in the Scottish mist for one day every hundred years. For that single day, it is complete: people, streets, rituals, love, danger, memory, and song. Then it disappears again. That has always felt like one of the best metaphors for events. Before a great gathering, there is silence….
Meet the Contributors who helped make Acts of Humanity: The Power of Purposeful Events an important and valuable book.
When I joined Microsoft, one of the first surprises was how hard it was to answer a few simple questions: How much were we spending on events? Where were we showing up in person? What was the objective of each gathering? No one was hiding the information. It was simply scattered. Product groups had event…
