Oh yeah, it's the People - The Key Ingredient to Making Shit Happen

Have you ever seen an awesome idea die because the people working on it couldn’t get along? Or maybe they couldn’t influence those who were supposed to benefit from using their idea, so nothing changed and the status quo just dragged on and on? Or maybe you work somewhere that frustrates the daylights out of you because it COULD be so fantastic, but people go all knuckle-headed when they get into a group meeting or a personal disagreement. It’s like the normally sane, cool people we know outside of work transform into some mentally/emotionally amputated version of themselves at work. This fascinates me. And frustrates me. And motivates me. I think one of the biggest bottlenecks to making a better world happen is the way we relate to each other 1-1 and in small groups. Whether you want to fix the organization you work in, be more effective in swaying people to get behind your great idea, or just laugh at how preposterously insane we can be when we have to deal with Those Damned Other People Who Are Doin It Wrong, I hope you’ll join me and others for this session.

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