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The Freak Factory: Helping People Get Better By Allowing Them To Get Worse

Most current management practices — trying to improve employees’ work habits, weaknesses, and attitudes — actually have a counter-productive effect. So how do you get more out of your employees? You start with their flaws — but don’t try to improve them. Instead, use them as clues for what they’d be best-suited for doing. David’s provocative and counter-intuitive talk will show you how to achieve peak performance—and create a positive, engaged workforce.

The Four Factors of Effective Leadership

• Everyone can be a leader.
• Leadership begins with you.
• Leadership is a relationship.
• Leadership produces positive change.

With these seemingly simple insights, David explodes the mysteries and confusion behind a lot of management and leadership theory and offers real solutions for confronting the challenges that all leaders face. David’s talk combines the wisdom of ancient philosophers, successful executives and leadership gurus into a clear roadmap for effective leadership. Using stories of famous leaders and infamous failures, David illustrates the importance of influence, integrity, inspiration and improvement.

The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness

What do you wish you could change about yourself? Are you too loud or too quiet, too hyperactive or too sedentary, too organized or too messy? You get the idea. Most people think that they should find and fix their weaknesses. However, research shows that most of us never make much progress trying to eliminate our worst traits. In fact, your weaknesses are actually the best clue to your strengths. In this funny and counter-intuitive talk, David shows you how to find success and improve performance by starting with your weaknesses — and embracing them rather than trying to deny them.