This past May found me at a hospital in Fort Worth for most of a week, watching my 80 year old mother die. During the hours that she slept and the morphine had its effect, I sought distraction by playing chess on my phone.
So here’s the deal. Now that you’re running a team, you’re going to be in a lot of meetings. You’ve reached a point in your career where you can’t keep thinking of meetings as a distraction from your “real job” – they are your real job.
It started with an email. Would I be interested in giving a talk at a TEDx event? A twenty-minute talk to maybe a hundred people. How hard could it be?
Sometime in 1998, Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires took to the stage of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw for an informal, lunchtime concert.