Brian Tracy was one of the keynote speakers at Dscoop6 last week. My favorite quote from his speech; “UNsuccessful people think about what’s wrong and who is to blame, SUCCESSFUL people think about what they want and how to make it happen.” What do you think about?

The other keynote at Dscoop6 was Stan Slap author of “I Buried My Heart at Conference Room B.” I bought his book at the show and finished reading it before I touched down in San Francisco (awesome book, awesome speech). I swear I’ve seen that guy at my dog park – you can bet I’ll be hanging out at my dog park more if there’s a chance I can exchange some ideas between ball tosses ;-)

The Dscoop organization has created a culture that thinks about what they want and how to get to it (rather than what’s wrong and who is to blame). They hang out on the “solution side.” This is their culture and as Stan Slap would say, the Dscoop organization has “emotional commitment” to the organization. Only emotional commitment could create this kind of energy. You can’t buy it (so don’t sit there and say its because HP wrote a big check – big checks have been written before and the events only managed to bore me).

I’ll use Stan Slap’s words to describe how it’s created, ironic that I learned about his work in an environment that exhibited it perfectly.

“The only way to generate dependable emotional commitment is to allow it to be self-generated.”

“Enforcing it or reinforcing it isn’t as important as getting out of the way and letting it happen.”

Hats off to Dscoop, it will be a highlight of my year. I thought I had to go to technology events in San Francisco to experience this kind of energy. The leaders of Dscoop are emotionally invested in creating a peer group that is solution oriented and thankfully HP is wise enough not to muck it up!