Stormin’
As Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, and James Macanufo point out in their book, Gamestorming, “[Humans] are so good at finding patterns that once we find one, it can be difficult to see anything else.” One of the simplest ways to […]
The Gallery Walk
I often wonder who came up with the idea of a “museum.” You know, where you walk from artwork to artwork around a room, looking at the pieces, reading the placard, absorbing the ambiance. Getting tired “museum feet.” I remember […]
The Failure of Powerpoint
It is time for me to address Powerpoint straight on. If you’ve been to a workshop or meeting with me in the past five years, you will know: I don’t use it. So let me get the “why” behind that […]
Life Changing Magic
I love the ideas Marie Kondo shares in her book (now a Netflix show!), The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. At least, I do in theory. I read her book while we were living in China. In China, it […]
Changing the New Year’s Question
As the new year rolls around, I’ve been thinking about how I facilitate future-action in the workshops I run, and how this can be translated into the New Year’s resolutions that we are all now contemplating at the dawn of […]