Your Important Duty

Story telling is an important part of a talk

The empowering context speaks to the purpose and is accessed most successfully through powerful storytelling.

As a Leader This is More Important Now Than Ever Before

Neil Armstrong steps from the LEM

    Neil Armstrong’s birthday was August 5th and it got me thinking about one of my favorite stories of all time. It’s a story about President John F. Kennedy. After he had declared we were going to go to the Moon, John F Kennedy visited NASA for the first time, in 1961. He saw […]

Leading in the Age of Coronavirus: Powerful Virtual Leadership

John Bates Free Webinar

FREE EVENT: LEADING IN THE AGE OF CORONAVIRUS; POWERFUL VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP IN A TIME OF GREAT UNCERTAINTY. More dates will be added this week. FRIDAY APRIL 3RD, (1 HOUR) 08:45 – 09:45 MOUNTAIN (07:45 PACIFIC/9:45 CENTRAL/10:45 EASTERN) New Dates will be posted on this page as we have them. These calls feature a quick check-in […]

“Luck” Means Something Different Than I Thought it Did!

John Bates on a beautiful longboard

    For most of my life I thought that luck was something that just happened. Something that was out of my control. Something that no one could control, or even really influence. And, perhaps when you’re talking about things that involve pure chance, maybe that’s still true. But, besides the initial starting conditions of […]

The Magic of a Woman’s Touch

family pic

I had always heard from married people that 1+1, in that context, equals a lot more than just 2. And, I never really understood it until I met Sharon. Something was just different about her and how I felt about her and after we had been dating for a while I realized that I didn’t […]