{"id":414,"date":"2005-10-14T10:00:33","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2005-10-14T10:02:55","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T18:02:55","slug":"guy-kawasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/14\/guy-kawasaki","title":{"rendered":"Guy Kawasaki"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just heard Guy Kawasa\u00adki<\/a> speak at Straight Talk<\/a>, a mar\u00adket\u00adplace min\u00adistry host\u00aded by Men\u00adlo Park Pres\u00adby\u00adter\u00adian Church<\/a>. He uses humor well. For instance, he was offered a job in Atlanta but \u201ccould\u00adn\u2019t take a job where they call sushi bait.\u201d<\/p>\n

I real\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded his intro:<\/p>\n

When I was younger I used to go to a lot indus\u00adtry con\u00adfer\u00adences, and I learned that most CEOs suck as speak\u00aders. And the only thing worse than lis\u00adten\u00ading to a speak\u00ader who sucks is not know\u00ading how much longer they\u2019re going to suck. So I\u2019ve adopt\u00aded a sim\u00adple rule: all my pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtions are in a top-ten for\u00admat. That way, if you decide I suck you at least know how much longer I\u2019m going to do it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfor\u00adtu\u00adnate\u00adly, I know a few preach\u00aders who could use his advice. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

His talk was The Art of the Start, based on his book. It\u2019s a talk he\u2019s giv\u00aden in a lot of dif\u00adfer\u00adent venues. You can find the notes online<\/a>. He did a pret\u00adty good job of cus\u00adtomiz\u00ading it for the con\u00adtext of the meet\u00ading (Chris\u00adt\u00adian busi\u00adness pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adals and their guests).<\/p>\n

In hon\u00ador of his speak\u00ading advice, here are ten things I learned about Guy Kawasa\u00adki:<\/p>\n

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  1. He\u2019s a Chris\u00adt\u00adian.<\/li>\n
  2. He went to Stan\u00adford (where he majored in \u201cthe eas\u00adi\u00adest major I could find\u2013psychology.\u201d).<\/li>\n
  3. He sec\u00adu\u00adlar\u00adized the term evan\u00adge\u00adlism while at Apple. Good for him\u2013the word could real\u00adly use a facelift.<\/li>\n
  4. He loves Apple and dis\u00addains Microsoft. \u201cDOS was a moral wrong.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. He finds evi\u00addence for the exis\u00adtence of a per\u00adson\u00adal God in the con\u00adtin\u00adued sur\u00advival of Apple. He fur\u00adther con\u00adcludes that God real\u00adly likes dig\u00adi\u00adtal music and wants you to pay for it.<\/li>\n
  6. He went to law school and dropped out after ten days, \u201cthere\u00adby inher\u00adit\u00ading 2,000 years of pent-up Asian guilt.\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. He loves to play hockey\u2013it sounds like an obses\u00adsion.<\/li>\n
  8. He is a CSI addict and is eager\u00adly await\u00ading the day that they release CSI: Men\u00adlo Park.<\/li>\n
  9. He loves first-class in Sin\u00adga\u00adpore Air\u00adlines. In fact, that\u2019s his work\u00ading mod\u00adel of heav\u00aden.<\/li>\n
  10. He thinks iStockPhoto.com<\/a> rocks\u2013he went out of his way to plug it at the end of his pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion and claimed to do so with\u00adout any finan\u00adcial incen\u00adtive (\u201cI\u2019m not an investor or any\u00adthing, I just love their prod\u00aduct.\u201d)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just heard Guy Kawasa\u00adki speak at Straight Talk, a mar\u00adket\u00adplace min\u00adistry host\u00aded by Men\u00adlo Park Pres\u00adby\u00adter\u00adian Church. He uses humor well. For instance, he was offered a job in Atlanta but \u201ccould\u00adn\u2019t take a job where they call sushi bait.\u201d I real\u00adly appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded his intro: When I was younger I used to go to \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cGuy Kawasa\u00adki\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-6G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}