Fundamentals In Thought Leadership	The Thought Leadership Graduate Experience
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Date: October 21-22, 2013 Location: The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida	Date: October 23-25, 2013 Location: The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida
Assertively led by: Alan Weiss Special Guest: Randy Gage	Assertively led by: Alan Weiss Special Guest: Dan Pink
Join us for the fourth Thought Leadership Conference and our first focused on fundamentals. Over two days we will: Enjoy on lavish opening reception dinner on Sunday evening. Engage with a major guest speaker and Thought Leader whom I plan to announce during early 2013. Formalize your expertise "sweet spot" and components. Build a personal Thought Leadership Scaffold. Focus on the synthesis of the Market Value Bell Curve, Market Gravity, and the Accelerant Curve. Create a personal blueprint for building Thought Leadership. Individualized preparatory work. Three books will be discussed to analyze Thought Leadership during the program. Qualify, if space permits, for the graduate experience which follows at the same location. NOTE: You may register for both programs at once. The graduate experience has only 20 seats. You will be in a world class property, The Breakers, focusing on your personal growth and potential dominance of your field.	This 2.5 day event is for graduates of the prior three Thought Leadership Conferences OR those who enroll in the Thought Leadership Fundamentals Program on October 21-22 at the same location. Maximum participation: 20 people. Objectives Rapidly move to widely acknowledged leadership in the areas you identify. Expand and enlarge those areas to the maximum degree. Become the "go to" person who can't be ignored and must be approached. Create "mega-gravity" where people are forced into your orbit. Increase your fees, increase your leads, decrease your labor intensity. Create a life that blends your talents, personal needs, and professional repute. In this fourth, annual session, we will continue to push the envelope to expand our expertise, broadcast that expertise, and become the "go-to" person in our area of excellence. Development will include: Extensive preparatory work. Personal requests for development. Analysis of current thought leadership in your field and how to surpass it. "Hot seat" interviews. Discussion of three provocative books and analysis of their contributions to thought leadership. Lunch and dinner with Dan Pink, in addition to his afternoon session with us. Methods in becoming an "object of interest." Interactions with colleagues in thought leadership from around the world. Elegant dinners (lodging, breakfast, and lunch are included in the fee). A "retreat environment" at one of the great properties in the world—The Breakers. Practice in debate and influence. Action plan and accountability influences to continue the ascent. A book outline created, whether your first or twenty-first.
Fees: $3,500 until December 31, 2012. $4,500 January 1, 2013 and after. Growth Cycle discounts of course apply.	Fees: $8.500 until December 31, 2012. $9,500 January 1, 2013 and after. Growth Cycle discounts of course apply.
Lodging is NOT included in this program, but breakfast, lunch, and the opening dinner is included.

Special Guest for the Fundamentals: Randy Gage

My name is Randy and I believe.

I believe you were born to be rich, people are meant to be inspired, and conventions should rock.

I believe a blog can change the world and a speech can change a life.

I believe safe is the new risky, boring is criminal, and pitchers should hit.

Call me a philosopher, a Jedi Knight or the millionaire messiah, just don’t call me late for dinner. I like hot cars, warm beaches and cold Dr. Pepper. Quiet confidence and loud ideas are sexy. When I’m not prowling the podium or locked in my lonely writer’s garret, you’ll find me playing 3rd base for a softball team somewhere.

I believe in my work, because I believe in you.

Meet Randy

Special Guest for the Graduate Experience: Daniel Pink

Daniel H. Pink is the author of four provocative books about the changing world of work, including the long-running New York Times best seller, A Whole New Mind, and the #1 New York Times best seller, Drive. His books have been translated into 32 languages.

His latest work, DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, uses 50 years of behavioral science to overturn the conventional wisdom about human motivation. Pink shows that carrot and stick motivators have been oversold and that high performance depends much more on the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things and to do better by ourselves and the world. Drive is a New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times best seller—as well as a national best seller in Japan and the United Kingdom.

In A WHOLE NEW MIND: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future, Pink charts the rise of right-brain thinking in modern economies and explains the six abilities individuals and organizations must master in an outsourced, automated world. A WHOLE NEW MIND spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times main and extended best seller lists—and has been a Freshman Read selection at several U.S. colleges and universities. Oprah Winfrey also gave away 4,500 copies of the book to Stanford University's graduating class when she was Stanford's commencement speaker.

Pink's THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need is the first American business book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. Illustrated by awardwinning artist Rob Ten Pas, the book was one of the best-selling graphic novels of 2008 and the only graphic novel ever to become a BusinessWeek best seller.

His first book, FREE AGENT NATION: The Future of Working for Yourself, was a Washington Post best seller that Publishers Weekly says "has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations."

Pink's articles on business and technology have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Sunday Telegraph, Fast Company and Wired. He has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also advises both Fortune 100 companies and startups on recruiting, innovation and work practices.

A free agent himself, he held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore. He also worked as an aide to U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich and in other positions in politics and government.

He received a B.A. from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Pink lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and their three children.

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