After a four-year gap due to the COVID pandemic, we eagerly returned to Anguilla for a two-week vacation. We love this tiny Caribbean island and have taken a welcome break from Vermont winter for fifteen years. I have written many […]
I’m looking back on 2023. And, dear reader, get 20% off my ebooks until the end of the year! 2023 in review I slowed down in 2023. Before 2020, I was designing and facilitating around a dozen in-person meetings and […]
OK, maybe the title of this post should have an asterisk next to it. A more accurate statement would be that I’m running faster than ever before, since I started running almost every day at the age of 65, years ago. […]
Why aren’t unconferences more popular? Events and media consultant Julius Solaris shared at the Unforgettable Experience Design Summit that he was initially very enthusiastic about unconference format events. He thought conferences would eventually adopt unconference models. But Julius didn’t see them catch […]
Growing up, I was immersed in an environment that worshipped feats of mind, to the almost total exclusion of the body. Apart from compulsory school sports on Thursday after school, I spent 5½ days each week studying, studying, studying. Perhaps […]
In a Pentagon news conference on Feb. 12, 2002, United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld gave a now-famous response to a question about the lack of evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to […]
I am delighted and honored to be featured in ‘Harnessing Serendipity,’ a unique book that explores the magic of facilitating connection that leads to collaboration. It includes the stories of 66 “talented connectors” who share insights on how they create transformative […]
Here are my suggestions on how to handle three kinds of metaphorical holes. Assholes We’ll begin with assholes. They are people (usually men in my experience) who reliably exhibit mean, uncaring, selfish, disrespectful, and contemptible behaviors. Most of the time, […]
The philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said that life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived looking forward. I agree! Understanding by looking backward In my 7th decade, I think I better understand some of the mysteries […]
Since 2004, social listening—the practice of monitoring and analyzing online conversations and social media mentions related to brands, products, services, events, or industries—has evolved significantly and grown in popularity. Initially confined to sentiment analysis, social listening tools can now identify trends, […]