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Most meetings have someone running the agenda. Far fewer have someone hosting the conversation - and people feel the difference.

At a recent Salon Dinner, I sat with 10 people, some lifelong friends and some total strangers, and watched a thoughtful host turn a big topic like AI into an evening everyone wanted to repeat. The 18th-century salons did the same thing: they brought together people who normally wouldn't mix, and let ideas, not rank, carry the room.

For executives and event producers, the lesson is practical. Before your next meeting, decide who is hosting the conversation, not just who is running the agenda.

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Most CEOs will tell you their people are their greatest asset. I don't think that's quite right. It's not the people—it's the mindset those people bring to work every day.

In this video, I lay out why a positive, curious, engaged workforce functions as a genuine asset on your balance sheet, while a negative, entitled, complacent one is a liability, and why so few organizations do anything intentional to build the mindset side of the equation.

With so much going wrong in the world right now, this isn't a nice-to-have anymore—it's a competitive necessity.

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Why does knowing a process is risky so rarely lead to fixing it? That question sits at the center of this short video from Steve Foran, a professional speaker with a background in safety who spent years removing avocado pits the unsafe way — hand in the line of fire — despite knowing exactly what he was risking.

Emergency rooms have a name for the resulting injury: avocado hand. Steve's shift came not from new information, but from watching a five-second, zero-risk method someone else had been using all along.

The lesson for leaders: awareness of a risk and action on a risk run on separate tracks, and teams tolerate known-flawed processes until they fail. A leader's job is to build the pause between the two.

🎬 Watch now, then take 15 minutes this week to ask your team what risk they've been quietly tolerating.

This story from a golf course highlights a common leadership blind spot: we expect others to step forward without considering whether we’ve created the conditions that make it possible.

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Leadership is often associated with having the right answers. But in today’s complex world, the real advantage lies in asking better questions and creating space for reflection.

Through years of facilitating executive groups, I’ve seen how removing the pressure to “fix” leads to deeper, more honest, and more impactful insights.

This video explores a simple yet powerful practice you can use immediately with your leadership team.

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Most leaders underestimate the impact of what they “go on about.”

During a CEO peer group retreat at North America’s first single malt whiskey distillery, an unexpected voice cut through collective silence. This story explores leadership, group dynamics, and why outsider perspective can be the most powerful force in a room.

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