How to Prepare: a Checklist For Great Talks
To help celebrate the recent release of the paperback edition of Confessions of a Public Speaker, as well as…
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Innovation Abuse: a case study
I’ve written before that we’d all be better off if people stopped saying Innovation. Calling something innovative doesn’t make…
What are the most annoying platitudes?
Sometimes when people are trying to be helpful, all they can think to say is a platitude. Often this…
Toastmasters on Confessions (Podcast)
To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of Confessions of a Public Speaker, here’s a kick-off post for…
Confessions now in Paperback
Confessions of a Public Speaker has reached the sweet milestone of being republished in Paperback. It’s now cheaper, smaller,…
Free copies of Myths of Innovation
O’Reilly Media has started a new blogger review program – If you’re willing to write a review, both on…
Quote of the week
A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger…
Confessions ebook $6.99 today only
O’Reilly is running a special deal, today only. You can get Confessions of a Public Speaker as an ebook…
Innovators, imitators and idiots
Nice little thought from Warren Buffet, quoted in a good piece on Harvard Business about Why smart people do dumb…
Why Do Arguments Become Hostile?
When conversations go wrong, there’s a moment right before it gets bad that something must have changed. What is…
Quote of the week
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration of fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films,…
Why today is not the future
In The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us by Kyle Munkitrick for Discover magazine, he ask the…
All ideas are made of other ideas
If you want to find new ideas, start by breaking existing ideas down into smaller ones. Only then can…
Book review: Creative workshop
I’ve been around for awhile, and have stacks of books claiming to spark design skills and creative thinking. Most…
Passive/Aggressive management and the Lakers
There’s something familiar about Kobe Bryant’s description about the style his coach, Phil Jackson uses. As this article explains,…
An open letter to Amazon.com
(Update 1/13: Problem fixed – thanks to everyone who forwarded, helped and empathized) Greetings people of Amazon.com: We’ve gotten…
SCRUM for Weddings?
I once wrote that Everything is Project, and its true. Recently Gregory Heller gave an ignite talk, at Seattle…
Does information overload matter?
Recently I’ve been involved in quantity vs. quality arguments related to the web. I have a half-baked thought I…
Munich advice?
I’ll be speaking at OOP 2011 in Munich, Germany late this month. I’ve never been to Munich before, or…
Quote of the week
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happer than other…