Robert Paterson is musing about The Power of One. Seems his website will record 1,000,000 hits this summer. When he started blogging he had no idea that within five years, a million people would have hit the site. So I posted a question in his comments, and I extend it to you. If you knew that in five years 1 million people would read what you have written, what would you do with that opportunity? It might come as a surprise to some, but greatness is not predetermined. Great ideas do not emerge fully hatched, marketable and readily consumed by …
From Nancy White, a brilliant video of Tom Sparough juggling cigar boxes and talking about courage. And from Jon Husband, with whom I had a lovely conversation today related to my 30 day learning journey, an mp3 from Ben Zander about possibility.
The situation in Zimbabwe being what it is, it’s often hard to see beyond the headlines and the punditry that tells how how we should feel. But of course, in this connected world, we live in a field of relationships that descends deep into every story on our planet. I have friends in Zimbabwe, and from that network of hosts and courageous leaders comes this email: Standing in Silence under a New Moon Sunday 6th April 2008 7 days ago we voted for change in our country. Against the legal imperative to call an election foul within 48 hours of …
Jack Martin Leith on how to do rapid innovation using Open Space Technology: We hear a lot of talk these days about Open Innovation (American academic Henry Chesbrough wrote the book), but not very much about Open Space Innovation. I’m not talking about new developments in the field of Open Space Technology – I’ll leave that for another day – but rather using Open Space Technology to accelerate the process of new product development and other forms of innovation.Jeffrey Hyman and I did just that for a global food manufacturer a few years ago, and it worked so well that …
Myriam Laberge and Brenda Chaddock have further developed their facilitation learning offerings and now offer a three tier learning program towards facilitation mastery. You can find out more at Myriam’s blog: Co-Creative Power: Masterful Facilitation Institute:Becoming An Inspired Facilitator. I like these two women a lot, and have worked with both of them. It’s cool to see them diving deeper and deeper into crafting amazing learning opportunities to share what they have discovered on their own journeys to mastery.