Friends,
I hope that all is well with you and yours, and that this e-mail finds you on a boat with shoddy connection, in the tropics, three months after I sent it.
Your company could be here.
I am, for the first time, opening up to newsletter sponsorships. For more information about how to put your brand in front of thousands of highly skilled, highly engaged professionals, send me an email. First come, first served.
Now accepting keynotes for 24Q2-24Q3
Every year, I create three main presentation decks. For 2024, they are:
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do: How to turn uncertainty into a competitive advantage. (Based on my new book by the same name.)
Regression Toward the Meme: Why modern leadership falls into old traps - and how to avoid them.
The Efficiency Illusion: How to uncover the hidden costs of digital commerce and create profitable growth.
If you want to book me for your event, corporate speaking slot, or workshop, merely send me an email. To make sure I am available, however, please do so at your earliest convenience; my availability is limited and the schedule is filling up fast. More information may be found here.
A couple of updates before we go-go
If at any point during the past week you heard a loud booming noise, I can only apologize. Birch pollen season has just kicked off in Sweden. In a word: ACHOO.
The wife and I have begun watching Billions at long last. Very good. It features one of my favorite actors, Damian Lewis, who is predictably outstanding against the equally brilliant Paul Giamatti. But it is by no means a two-man show; the cast is excellent pretty much across the board.
On a more professional note, here is an update on my availability for anyone who might be interested: given that we are expecting our second child in August, I have decided to dramatically limit my traveling in the months immediately before and after. Consequently, if you are considering bringing me in for a keynote, corporate presentation, or workshop, I would highly recommend letting me know sooner rather than later.
Details about my consulting and speaking fees, as well as a few other bits and bobs (such as a short essay on adaptive strategy), can be found on my website.
Lastly, I have decided to do more work in leadership going forward. It seems a natural “official” extension; it has either explicitly or implicitly been a factor in almost everything that I have done over the last two decades. Plus, many of the prominent thinkers in the field excel at only one thing: bullshit. Somewhere, leadership training became “executive coaching” and a masterclass in the feculent arts. It is high time someone put a stop to it.
Or attempted to, anyway.
Moving on.