{"id":107,"date":"2006-06-08T16:53:49","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2006-06-08T16:53:51","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T22:53:51","slug":"art-of-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/08\/art-of-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Art of Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire Rational Conference just became very very worthwhile. While the conference it self has been good and the sessions covering a wide range of topics have been excellent, this mornings presentation by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjaminzander.com\/\">Benjamin Zander<\/a> was outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>While most conferences will have a motivational or featured speaker, I think in the long term, this one will be different. In his presentation he positioned his talk as transformational rather that motivational, likening motivational talks to Chinese food, a few hours later and you&#8217;re hungry for more. With me, thinking back over the last several conferences there are few I can recall and fewer that made a lasting impact. Actually, I remember one keynote speaker at Lotusphere a few year back when they had Gene Kranz the flight director on the Apollo 13 mission who established the phrase &#8220;Failure is not an option&#8221;. This may be because I was at the Kennedy Space Center this week and they use that phrase heavily on their merchandising in the store.<\/p>\n<p>Zander&#8217;s highly energetic and yes motivational presentation got me to but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0875847706\/qid=1149806733\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14\/702-5097658-4592025\">book<\/a> and I&#8217;ve read half of it on the plane back to Winnipeg, and it&#8217;s great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire Rational Conference just became very very worthwhile. While the conference it self has been good and the sessions covering a wide range of topics have been excellent, this mornings presentation by Benjamin Zander was outstanding. While most conferences will have a motivational or featured speaker, I think in the long term, this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}