Last week, my partner-in-crime at Golden Technologies, Kristin Page, wrote a guest post for Robby Slaughter‘s company, Slaughter Development. Two weeks ago, she asked, “Who’s Robby Slaughter? I asked who needed a guest blog post and he spoke up.”

That’s kind of who Robby is:  you don’t know him till you meet him, but once you meet him you’ll never forget him

Owner of Slaughter Development. Author of the book, “Failure:  the Secret to Success.” Robby is constantly on the go, constantly moving, constantly thinking.

And his results constantly speak for themselves.

Please enjoy the few minutes I go to share with Robby as we discussed his year in review.

1 – #BIN2010 might be dubbed, “The Year of the Writer.” Congratulations on publishing your book, “Failure: The Secret to Success.” Besides the implied reasons found in the title, what specifically inspired you to write the book?

Thanks! Fear of failure is the most gripping and serious problem we face at work and in life. Making mistakes is essential to learning, yet we seem to be afraid of doing anything wrong. I wrote the book to establish a conversation around what enables us to succeed in our professional and personal world. I hope that it helps others feel inspired to embrace the role of failure.

2 – I’ve confessed often to being in chronic agreement with everything you say. Tell us a little about the career path you took which lead you to your company, Slaughter Development (just so I can see if there’s similarities ).

I used to be in the IT business, mostly in custom app development and system implementation. But I steadily realized that the problems that were most interesting to me were not technological, but sociological. In fact, many of the the hi-tech “productivity tools” we create actually *limit* overall productivity. We can become more effective and more satisfied at work more through a change in perspective than anything else.

3 – Elevator pitch:  Why should people attend your BIN2010 session: “Producing Content without Agony.”

I’ve promised to do something insane: explain how to write an entire blog post in only five minutes, and demonstrate it live in front of the audience. We agonize over content, but using some of the tactics in my workshop you can learn to move past these mental blocks and get your word out in a few pleasant minutes instead of long, painful hours.

4 – As someone who’s been influential in Blog Indiana since the its inception in 2008, what are your expectations for BIN2010.

BIN2010 is going to be great. As I write this, Friday has sold out and Saturday is almost there. We’ve got some fantastic speakers and many new faces. I think the biggest challenge will be getting it all in—there are so many great sessions to attend and not enough time!

5 – During a session of BIN2009 you claimed you wrote a post in 8 minutes [correct me if that's wrong]. Have you since broken that record?

It was nine minutes and forty seconds. I think I’ve done it much less time, but I don’t usually take out a stopwatch while blogging. The promise for Saturday afternoon is to write one in under five minutes. Come and see if it can be done!

Absolutely I will! It’ll be like fireworks at the end of #bin2010!

For the record, I purchased a copy of his book and had him sign it! Looking forward to chronically agreeing to everything he wrote.

And if you want to catch his #bin2010 presentation, “Producing Content without Agony,”then make sure to be in room  IT 252 at 4pm (EST) on Saturday, August 21st!

(photo credit:  Robby Slaughter)

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