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.
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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
The Czech capital really is one of The Great Cities. I am admittedly partial – Prague was the first place that my wife and I went after we had gotten married. Seeing the place where we stayed, the steep path past the castle that we walked down every morning and up every evening, and the places we visited, brought back lovely memories of a weekend isolated from time and reality.
I enjoy traveling for work quite a bit; to see new places, meet new people, catch up with old friends, and watch people react to concepts of which they had no prior knowledge but that explain so many of the challenges that they face on a daily basis. But I will be honest, every time I leave home, I miss my wife and daughter. Airports, airplanes, taxis, and hotels, lose their luster after you have seen them all before. I would rather do nothing with my family than anything with someone else.
To be entirely clear (and then some), that is absolutely nothing against the Retail Summit. On the contrary; everyone treated me exceptionally well, the event was amazing, the crowd lovely, the venue huge. I would happily come back in a heartbeat. My point is merely that the best part of every journey for me now is coming back home, regardless of where I have been.
Unfortunately, however, I returned to news that my daughter had developed a rather serious eyesight issue and needed further tests. I guess there had to be something given how utterly perfect she is in every regard. So, at the time of writing, I have just come home from hours at the hospital. Not an ideal start to the day.
The good news is that she does not appear to have any dangerous underlying condition, but her left eye is in a bad state and she will have to wear glasses at least until she is eight years old. And if we are unlucky, there might be other corrective actions needed in her not-so-distant future. I am keeping my fingers crossed that will not be necessary.
Things could obviously be much worse, but they still break a part of your heart. Idun is the most intensely glowing star in the center of my universe. Everything I do is for her, forever and always.
Anyway. Moving on.