One lonely night in a hotel room far, far away … I decided to share my essential executive travel gear.
I like to be prepared on the road to an obsessive degree. I hope one of these things saves your hide one time.
For making speeches
1. Cough drops
2. Throat spray
3. Bookmarks featuring my book and blog (for fans I meet, or when end up next to Oprah on the flight and need to impress her quick).
4. Happy Face buttons for nice people I meet.
5. Travel clock to put on the podium. Nothing ruins a speech more than going over time.
6. Logitech Cordless Presenter — essential: it has a timer on the front, so you can pace your speech.
Music
8. NXT speakers — fills your hotel room with sound, weighs nothing. Be sure to look for NXT technology.
9. Shure Sound-Isolating Earphones — Don’t get the gimmicky electronic noise reduction headphones. Get sound isolating earphones like professional musicians use.
10. iPod
Gear
11. Eagle Creek Packing Cubes — amazingly useful.
12. iPod charger and video output to show movies on hotel TV.
13. Batteries for laptop, remotes, cell phone.
14. Power splitter will make you a hero at the airport, and helps in those one-outlet hotel rooms.
Paperwork & Organizers
15. Thank you notes to write.
16. Envelope for receipts.
17. Fold-up shopping bags to carry stuff.
18. Plastic folders for paperwork.
Entertainment
19. Harvard Business Review so people think you’re smart.
20. Books, fiction and non-fiction.
21. Mindless movies
More Gear
22. $30,000 in unmarked small bills (not shown).
23. Earplugs
24. USB stick – Copy all important documents to this before the trip. Keep another one in your pocket.
25. Ick remover
26. Zebra F-301 pen — the greatest $2 pen on earth.
27. Field Notes notepad
28. Clipboard — lifesaver in many situations, and handy for keeping a hot laptop off your lap.
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I’m definitely going to need to check out those packing cubes. =)
Great list, Andy! Thanks for sharing! I’ve been using “noise reduction” headphones with varying success - will check out the ones you recommend.
Oh - what is #7 in the first pic?
# 7 is a barf bag.
When I make speeches, I pass it around to collect business cards (not barf).
Listen to this podcast to find out why: http://www.damniwish.com/2008/12/slooooow-word-of-mouth.html
I forgot a few other things:
29. Backpack - to keep hands free and back pain-free
30. Business cards
31. Plantronics 925 bluetooth headset with case that serves as a spare battery
32. Skype headset with sound-isolating earphones and travel case for doing webcasts and videoconferencing with my kids (Plantronics Audio 480 USB Virtual Phone Booth Headset)
33. Motorola Q Windows Mobile smartphone
34. Levenger notepad that holds 3×5 cards for note-taking.
35. And, of course, a cool red Dell M1330 laptop with an “I’m a PC” sticker from Microsoft