Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick ...
Fellow Gen Xer David Gammel had a brief chat the other day on Twitter reminiscing about making "mix tapes." For you younger folks, this was a process where we would go through our record or CD collection, pick ...
So says an article in Fast Company Magazine by Chip and Dan Heath, the brothers that wrote the (awesome) book, Made to Stick. I find it interesting, particularly after my session in Toronto where one of my seven t ...
I was very pleased with the turnout for my conflict session. Many thanks to those of you who sat on the floor or, as this photo indicates, actually stood in the hall to watch my session (I was already on Tip 3 when that ...
As I expected, I didn't have the internal "bandwidth" to be able to blog during the 2009 ASAE & The Centre (spelled that way in honour of Canada) Annual Meeting. It was the usual story--nonstop sessions ...
I was sort of looking forward to simply being an attendee at ASAE & The Center's Annual Meeting in Toronto this year. I had been a speaker or at least led the bloggercon session for the last four meetings. I like ...
Bob Corlett pointed me to an article by Henry Mintzberg that challenges the distinction between Leadership and Management. He argues that the financial crisis we are experiencing is at least partly due to "leaders&q ...
Thanks to Eric Brown, I discovered this blog post from Umair Haque that talks about the difference between thick value and thin value. With the economy the way it is and stories of failed business executives getting big ...
The American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) published an article in their magazine recently by Tony Bingham about informal learning. These are training and development folks, so obviously their career focus ...
Thanks to Jeff De Cagna for pointing out this interesting article by venture capitalist Paul Graham about "managers schedule" versus "makers schedule." By "maker" he is referring to people l ...
