Liz Vogel

There is a scene from an old movie, Shakespeare in Love, where one of the theatre actors is pressuring the theatre owner on the arrival of Will Shakespeare’s next play, badgering him with questions which finally ends with the exchange  …… ·       Mr. Fennyman, allow me to explain about the theatre business. The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. ·       So, what do we do? ·       Nothing. Strangely enough, it all turns out well. ·       How?...

A perfect autumn afternoon at the top of a skyscraper in New York City. The sun had lowered in the sky highlighting the windows of the Chrysler building as the sounds of jazz music began to weave through the room. I had just finished a full day at a conference focused on the future of work and was networking with new colleagues when I heard the strands flow through the cocktail hour. As we made our way over to the music, we discovered a jazz quintet playing. They were good. New York City jazz...

What is it you are trying to do? Influence? Teach? Inform? Impact? What is it that would sway any of us in those categories? When do you find yourself willingly being influenced? Or, open to being taught? Or, able to really listen to something new? Or, and this is a big one, changed ? What conditions need to be in play to have any of those things happen? It may not be the only condition, but a powerful one is to be included. To feel included. And one of the easiest ways to do that is to ask...