What’s the relationship between conference size and “success”? Here’s the beginning of a blog post by Seth Godin with every occurrence of the word “organization” replaced by the word “conference” and the word “traditional” added to the first sentence. As a […]
What it means to belong. Two words that no one would ever use to describe me would be “sports fan”. Yet I’ve been moved by my friend John Chen‘s epic adventure into high-end Super Bowl madness this week. Which brings […]
Seth Godin on attendance versus participation. “My philosophy is that it doesn’t pay to go to a conference unless you’re prepared to be vulnerable and meet people, and it doesn’t pay to go to a Q&A session unless you’re willing […]
What could be wrong with requiring measurable outcomes? “Enough of this feel-good stuff! How do we know whether people have learned anything unless we measure it?” —A little voice, heard once in a while in learning designers’ heads Ah, the […]
What happens when a guy brings bagpipes to your event? “My full-day live seminars have impact on people partly because I don’t announce the specific agenda or the talking points in advance. It’s live and it’s alive. I have no […]
Conferences are containers for ideas. “Books, those bound paper documents, are part of an ecosystem, one that was perfect, and one that is dying, quickly… …We still need ideas, and ideas need containers.” —Seth Godin, An End of Books Like […]
Fear of change Opportunities that can change our lives in amazing ways surround us. These opportunities come in the form of a choice between continuing with what we are already doing and doing something different. Think of them as forks in the […]
Meeting participants deserve real choices. My daughter Cara and her kids joined us last week at our home in Vermont. We ended up spending most of our time goofing around: How we decide is important because it greatly determines what we […]
Wirearchy not hierarchy! Wirearchy? What’s that? Here’s organizational learning consultant Harold Jarche: If you are convinced that your future workplace should look more like a Wirearchy, (a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on, knowledge, trust, credibility, a focus on results; enabled […]