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How TED strengthens its community through shared purpose

March 25, 2013by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

When you consider the impact of TED, its most impressive feat may not be its annually sold-out events at $10,000 (!) per seat. Or its star-studded audience that includes the likes of Bill Gates, Jeff […]

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When procrastination is a good thing

March 16, 2013by Greg Fuson 1 Comment

I’m as guilty of this as anyone, and ironically once found myself putting off a writing deadline while reading James Surowiecki’s article about…procrastination. We all do it, some of us […]

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Make surveys meaningful — and beat back the trolls

March 7, 2013by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

Donna Kastner has a great post about how to gather more meaningful survey feedback by, among other things, getting rid of confidentiality. Somewhere along the way it became conventional wisdom that […]

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How I got my speaking mojo on (and you can too)

January 28, 2013by Greg Fuson 4 Comments

My presentation at PCMA was successful, in that it generated a lot of positive feedback (thank you, kind souls) and several more speaking invites. So I thought I’d capture the […]

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We don’t serve soda here

January 8, 2013by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

One of the defining characteristics of a community is that it establishes and enforces a set of social norms…as I recently experienced. I was in San Francisco for a lunch […]

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He was polarizing

January 4, 2013by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

I love this story from Rockwood Music Hall in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At a popular venue that features fantastically talented musicians performing hourly, the night’s most memorable […]

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Emotionally Engaging Events by Design

December 8, 2012by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

If you study the most successful, revered events—rock stars of the meetings world, like TED, The Nantucket Project and Renaissance Weekend—you’ll find that they do two things exceptionally well: create […]

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Learning becomes an experience when it’s shared

November 21, 2012by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

For many years I’ve attended (remotely) the Global Leadership Summit, a conference held outside Chicago and beamed to over 200 satellite sites throughout the world. Because the event takes place […]

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Houston, we need a tissue

October 3, 2012by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

I recently attended a talk where the speaker showed a video clip from “Apollo 13”—the climactic heat-shield scene where the command module re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and, for more than three […]

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Passage

September 4, 2012by Greg Fuson Leave a comment

Attending a conference that you ran for most of your career is a bit surreal, sort of like Joe Torre might feel sitting in the bleachers at a Yankees game. This […]

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