Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez: Leading Through The Abyss

南希·杜阿尔特和帕蒂·桑切斯:穿越深渊

Good Life Project

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2016-03-07

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For most of us, dealing with change is tough. We're wired to avoid wading into the abyss where we don't know how things are going to end. Even tougher, though, is leading others through change. Today's guests, Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez know this. Nancy is the co-founder of her eponymous firm, Duarte, the top presentation design firm in the world. Patti is the Chief Strategy Officer, and a lifelong storyteller and communications savant. Nancy has been on the show before when we filmed a powerful conversation about her "origin story." Today's focus is on the deep collaboration Nancy and Patti have formed, leading the firm through a disruptive, yet transformational reorganization, while simultaneously co-writing a book on leading through change, Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols. In today's conversation, we talk about the simultaneously visionary, yet often brutal process of creative destruction in the name of building something better and how to tell the story of what's going on in a way that lets those you're about to disrupt understand why it's necessary and share a believable path to where you're all going together. But, there's a deeper story that also unfolds. It's the story about Nancy and Patti's very personal journey, the dance between the fiercely future-focused visionary and deeply empathic and present-focused storyteller. We also dive into what it's like to write a book on change when you're simultaneously trying to take your company through its own process of transformational change. If you're leading people in any endeavor now, or hope to in the future, this is a conversation you won't want to miss! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • How do you dream?

  • And are you born with the ability to see the future, or do you cultivate the ability to see the future?

  • And when you see it, are you the right one to articulate it?

  • So one of the hardest things that we go through in life is change.

  • The bigger the change, the more we tend to scream and scrap and kick and resist against it.

  • But there may actually be one harder thing than going through our own personal change, and that's actually leading other people through change.

  • So I'm really excited to sit down this week with Nancy Duarte and Patti Sanchez.

  • Nancy is the founder of the world's leading presentation design firm called Duarte on Silicon Valley.

  • And she worked with Patty, who's a master storyteller who worked together.

  • And they co authored a really fantastic book called illuminate, ignite change through speeches, stories, ceremonies and symbols.

  • And we kind of geek out on how to not only move through change on a personal level, but also what do you actually need to do to inspire people to actually move through change and to rise up and sort of co create that change in a really constructive way?

  • Which kind of fascinating, too, is as we had this conversation, they are in the process of leading their own company through a pretty profound shakeup, and they're not all the way through.

  • And so it's kind of interesting to go underneath the hood and find out what's actually happening and what were the big wins and what are the big struggles and the big challenges that they still have to move through.

  • They're both incredibly generous and revealing, and it's really fascinating conversation, so I hope you enjoy it.

  • I'm Jonathan Fields.

  • This is a good life project.

  • I was desperate to find meaning again and like old meaning.

  • So I went back to what was my strategy in 2001 when the.com crash happened?

  • Like, what?

  • What was I saying back then?