While discussing yesterday’s blog post with Denise Ippolito and doing some additional research I found a very interesting piece on the Forbes web site here<\/a>. <\/p>\n In How Martin Luther King Improvised ‘I Have a Dream”<\/em> Carmine Gallo writes:<\/p>\n Few people know that the prepared text to Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s transformative \u201cdream speech\u201d did not contain the passage that started with \u201cI have a dream;\u201d the phrase that most of us remember as we mark the 50th anniversary of King\u2019s famous speech. Something extraordinary happened around the seventh paragraph of the speech, an event that instantly transformed the speech from a good one to one widely considered the greatest speech of the twentieth-century. What happened in the second half of the speech carries an important lesson for today\u2019s business leaders who need to inspire their teams.<\/p>\n In his book, \u201cBehind the Dream,\u201d King speechwriter Clarence B. Jones told the story of what really happened as King prepared for the speech and the astonishing thing that occurred as he was delivering it. I\u2019ll summarize the story and follow it with the vital lesson it carries for contemporary leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n