The Netflix Inc. guide to culture (Analysis)
Making the rounds this week is this slidedeck apparently put together by Netflix upper management about their culture. There…
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Help me find photos for the new book
The new book, Confessions of a public speaker, is wrapping up and one of the fun challenges remaining is…
Keep me honest
The Conference Board Review, a magazine by the folks who create the U.S. Consumer Confidence Index, have re-published a…
Crap detection 101 and social media
Howard Rheingold wrote an interesting essay called Crap Detection 101, which provides both commentary on how to separate fact…
How to design a conference – Interview with GEL host Mark Hurst
I’ve run a few events myself and a challenge many attendees never think about is how to arrange the…
How to watch a Michael Bay film
To get out of the 101 degree heat here in Seattle, I decided to take the afternoon off yesterday…
The science of hunches?
Interesting article in the NYTimes about the significance of following hunches for U.S. Soldiers in Iraq. Among various stories…
Wednesday Linkfest
Here are this week’s good links: 100 years of design manifestos – I’ve always wanted to write a manifesto.…
Have you spoken at Ignite? Need your help
As part of research I’m doing for the new book, Confessions of a public speaker, I have some questions…
The new book: confessions of a public speaker
I’ve got two new posts up about the new book: Lessons from 50+ books on public speaking – some…
Lessons from 50+ books on public speaking
My book Confessions of a Public Speaker is published and doing well – but to write it well I did…
Wednesday linkfest
Here are this week’s links: Cool gallery of low tech computers – I love this stuff. The Greek Antikithera,…
Don’t be precious
Creativity is best studied creatively, and for me this means studying what the masters actually did. Not what we…
The other myths of innovation?
There’s been buzz around two recent articles listing myths of innovation, one from CIO Insight and another from CEOForum,…
Wednesday linkfest
Here’s this week’s links: Great post about how experts cause more failures. Nice comparison between software and other processes,…
Calling bullshit on social media
While I like and use Facebook and Twitter, there’s enough hype and abuse of words like innovation, transformation and…
Can you force questions on an audience?
Here’s a question from the mailbag: Last week I held a presentation to my company (around 60-70 people). My…
Wednesday linkfest
Sorry its been awhile – on the homestretch for the new book, had a vacation, and also a total…
Instant feedback for speakers?
At the Business to Buttons conference this month, I noticed an interesting way to collect feedback on speakers at…
(Seattle) Cool event: Small and Special
I’m in believer in the philosophy of the small. Part of why I quit was I wanted to work…