The Most Interesting People I've Met

This is the ninth in a series of 13 questions designed to help you capture the best from the past year. To learn more about this project and to download a tool to help you with your process for completing this year and starting next year more successfully, check out this post.

Here's today's question:

Who are the most interesting people I met?

I've been looking forward to this question! I have met LOTS of interesting people this year. Among the first that come to my mind are three people that I actually haven't met; we've only converse on the phone and through email.

• These three people are all incredibly smart and nice, Jonathan Farrington, Jon Gordon, and Mike Robbins (They are great writers too!)

I also met:

• A ton of great people at the 800-CEO-Read author Pow-Wow that I could put on this list. (You can read posts about that event and the folks I met here and here.)
• One of my favorite bloggers, Lisa Haneberg in June at ASTD.
• The team at Jossey-Bass that helped me with Remarkable Leadership.
• Denis Waitley, one of my favorite authors, briefly, as well.
  

I could go on here, but you don't want to read that long...

Beyond all of these wonderfully talented and interesting people I also met hundreds of workshop participants, folks in organizations we consult with, and people in audiences at my keynotes.

I'm surely blessed.

One of the reasons I propose this question to you is for exactly that insight - I believe that most of us will look back on a year and identify many interesting people that we have met. Of course, the greater value to you (and them) comes as you build a relationship and go beyond just meeting someone. I could say much more about this point, but I don't want to give away too much about tomorrow's question.

Come back tomorrow for my thoughts on Question 10 - and again if you haven't yet downloaded the full tool with 26 questions to make your 2008 great, you can do that right here.

Labels: learning, questions, reflection

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