Most of us have had to suffer through a “discussion” occurring in the presence of a large number of people, most of whom never get an opportunity to speak. Here are three tips for facilitating group discussions. Use a fishbowl […]
Turning win-lose into win-win? Wouldn’t you like to know how to do that? Read on! Playing win-lose As a kid I played chess. I was good enough to get on the school team (which included the soon-to-be-grandmaster Ray Keene, chess […]
The Power of Participation! Take a look at this photo. Do you routinely get this level of interaction at your conferences? If not (and even if you do), you may be interested in my book, The Power of Participation: Creating […]
Here are my favorite WordPress plugins for a small business website. These days when considering a web presence for your small business, it’s hard to not be impressed with the flexibility and power available from a self-hosted WordPress site. Although […]
Here’s part 2 of The Right (Way) To Vote series – posts on voting at events. It covers testing consensus using Roman voting. Feel free to read Part 1, on hand and stand voting. How should groups make decisions? Common […]
Here’s an important lesson I learned about marketing while running a solar business thirty years ago, forgot, and learned again after publishing my first book in 2009. With the rise of online, this lesson has never been more important than it […]
“There is talent everywhere. We just don’t know how to find it.” –Jonah Lehrer Today’s Wired article by Jonah Lehrer describes recent research on the NFL scouting combine that concludes that highly paid sports scouts barely do better than chance at picking great players […]
Recently I was sitting on a plane about to take off and noticed something interesting during the usual safety instructions video. And I learned something about the importance of modeling listening. Did the flight attendants travel up and down the […]
It’s time to demystify the unconference. Nine hundred years ago, when the world’s first universities began and prestigious libraries might contain a few hundred hand-copied books, the way you learned something was to travel to where a man (in those […]
The myth of control. Misconception 7: Conflict is bad…The reality is that whenever you have more than one living person in a room, you’ll have more than one set of interests, and that’s not a bad thing. —The Change Handbook […]