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True stories from the table

Everything that matters happens at dinner. We just stopped noticing.

True stories from the tables where history, business, relationships, and families were made. Get the next one first.

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A family of several generations sharing dinner at a long table outdoors, with candles and string lights

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Every story is true. Each one shows what happens when the right people sit down at the same table.

1790

A capital city decided over a single dinner.

1814

A chef who helped a defeated country win back its place among the powers that beat it.

1972

A banquet that opened China to the West.

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About Bret

For nearly four decades I have watched the most important decisions in business get made somewhere other than the conference room. It started on the Boeing 777 program and continued through thirty years of consulting across the globe at Diamond Management and Technology Consultants, Booz & Company, and PA Consulting, and now at The Bridger Group, the firm I founded.

I advise executives and organizations on strategy, finance, and growth. I also host: from recurring dinner parties to an annual pig roast over a six-foot fire pit for more than a hundred people.

I am writing a book about why the table still matters, at work and at home. I will be sharing some of its stories here.

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