Difficult Conversations
17 July 2007Yesterday I revisited Difficult Conversations in preparation for a workshop I was running – and also because at a family gathering my sisters-in-law had been talking about difficulties they were having raising issues with their bosses. There’s a lot to Difficult Conversations, even though the book itself is easy to read, the application is a…
An erasable business plan
13 July 2007Brett Hollis of Big Stick Adventures was speaking about how his business, located in Torquay, has grown over the last 18 months. Banker, turned adventurer, Hollis said his business plan is on a small whiteboard in his office. He erases it and rewrites it every three months. My sort of business plan!
Help!
12 July 2007OK – I give up! If there’s anyone out there reading this (and I know there’s ways of knowing that but I don’t know how) who’s willing to help me with how to upload videos and pictures on to my blog I’ll be eternally grateful. Really, I will. My helpful and clever web designer and…
Top 5 Books
4 July 2007A friend asked me if I could keep only 5 of my books* (gasp!) what would they be. *Existing books, already on my bookshelf *Work/business-related books So here goes: (in no particular order) Hang on – this is hard! I’ve had to decide on some criteria – so ‘currently useful’ and ‘well thumbed’ (which I…
Read this – just read it, OK.
3 July 2007To all my Aussie readers, Chris Corrigan’s insightful views about Canada’s First Nation people resonates does it not? Then check out what Dave Pollard has to say.
Links 29/6/07
29 June 2007My Open Space buddy and blogger friend Chris Corrigan has a weekly list of links. It’s such a good idea, I’ve decided to copy it. So, here’s this week’s links. The Annual Australasian Facilitators’ Network (AFN) Conference will be held in Adelaide, SA, in late November. This year is the 10th Anniversary Conference. Not bad…
WTF!!!!!!
29 June 2007Part of a letter in the 16 June edition of New Scientist, from Andrew Yake, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. “Conflating origination with voluntariness is a common error in unsophisticated discussions about free will. Suggesting that deterministic chaos is evidence for any conception of free will, however, propagates far worse confusions.” Yep – I’m confused!
Belonging
23 June 2007My footy team won last night. Now this is not very remarkable unless: 1) you live in Melbourne, Australia and 2) you barrack for Richmond aka the Tigers. Footy (Australian Rules Football) is a religion in Melbourne over winter, and while I no longer go to every match, I remain a devoted follower (after all…
How many ppt mistakes can one guest speaker make?
21 June 2007I would love to send this video to a guest speaker at a recent dinner I attended. Despite his credentials as a ‘world expert’ on his topic and the importance of his message it was all pretty much lost on me because of his ppt presentation that, no kidding, included every one of these don’ts.