Tiffani Bova tells us what a road warrior does in a pandemic, and how to re-learn to be creative. Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Tiffani Bova -Vision Boarder, Brilliance Curator, Ideas Alchemist.
Timestamps:
3:09 – “In preparation for writing my book, I read 75 of the best business books ever written.”
10:53 – “When Seth Godin says you should write the book, you go, ‘I think I should write the book!’”
16:12 – “I wrote each chapter like it was a keynote. I stood up, recorded myself, recorded my voice, and transcribed each thing I said.”
19:02 – “How could I scale the fact that I can’t travel around the world at this pace forever?”
26:12 – I said something funny, and some stage-right laughed…and I was like, “Oh, I want more!”
33:05 – “My research was while I was traveling. Those hall room conversations, those backstage conversations with people that you meet.”
35:15 – My husband said, “I love having you here but I’m looking forward to you coming home again.’”
39:31 – “Whatever your superpower may be, you have to become a student of that profession. And you’re going to suck a couple of times.”
44:32 – “At the end of my presentations, people would want the presentations. So I said, ‘Here’s my trade. Here’s my email, email me feedback…then I would send them the deck.”
47:05 – “Growth and comfort never coexist.”
48:06 – “I think leaders are at a crossroads right now. You have the choice to go back to the status quo or you have a choice to reimagine what is possible.”
52:17 – “If you’re going to start asking questions, you have to be open to listen to what is said.”
56:19 – “From that dinner and from those bottles of wine, I realized I am not an entrepreneur.”
57:25 – “If everything’s a risk, then you really have to fall in love with failure.”
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Tiffani Bova is the chief growth evangelist at Salesforce and the author of the Wall Street Journal bestselling book GROWTH IQ. Bova has been named to the latest Thinkers50’s list of the world’s top management thinkers and is a welcomed guest on Bloomberg, BNN, Cheddar, MSNBC, and Yahoo Finance, among others. She also contributes her thinking to publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Diginomica, Quora, Thrive, Rotman School of Management, and Duke Dialogue Review. She is a change-maker whose thought-provoking and forward-thinking insights have made her a highly sought-after keynote speaker and advisor for startups and Fortune 500 companies around the globe.
Washington Post Best Selling Author and Motivational Keynote Speaker, Laura Gassner Otting, inspires people to push past the doubt and indecision that keep great ideas in limbo because her presentations make listeners think bigger and accept greater challenges that reach beyond their limited scope of belief.
She delivers strategic thinking, well-honed wisdom, and perspective generated by decades of navigating change across the start-up, nonprofit, political, as well as philanthropic landscapes. Laura dares listeners to find their voice, and generate the confidence needed to tackle larger-than-life challenges. She leads them to seek new ways of leading, managing, and mentoring others.