Waiting For the Human Workplace

In the fall of 2011 I was going crazy. I was looking for something — a point on the arrow to tie together the big and small ideas I’d been writing and speaking about for decades. My friend Molly said “Enlarge the lens, Liz. Go meet some new people.” I started to have coffees and lunches with people I didn’t know. It turns out that if you want to go meet a lot of new people, it’s very easy to do. I sat on LinkedIn and sent InMails to people I didn’t know — people  who work in government, academia, big business, startups, the arts and the media — you name it. Seventy-five percent of them said “Sure! I’ll have lunch.” I had sixty lunches and forty-five coffees.