How Events & Conferences Should End
Yesterday I gave the closing talk, How To Champion Ideas, at An Event Apart Seattle (If you saw me at…
Category: Teaching/Training
How to Run a Good Workshop
Workshops are hopeful things. They’re sold on so much promise, but that promise is often dashed as students discover…
Take my course on Innovation, online, right now
A secret project I did with O’Reilly Media is now available online. For years I’ve taught full day workshops…
What I learned at FOO Camp ’11
I was invited back to O’Reilly’s FOO (Friends Of O’Reilly) camp, an unconference weekend event held at O’Reilly Media’s HQ…
What I learned at FOO Camp ’10
I was invited back this year to O’Reilly’s FOO (Friends Of O’Reilly) camp, an unconference weekend event held at…
Should the web be allowed in class?
There’s a fantastic discussion on metafilter about whether college students should be able to use the web during class…
Why conferences must talk about failure
The web failed to let me know about this one before it happened, but last week The first ever…
What I learned at FOO Camp ’09
For the fifth time I managed to get invited to O’Reilly’s FOO (Friends Of O’Reilly) camp, an unconference weekend…
Free $600 ticket to Monday’s MasterClass (San Francisco)
Next Monday, March 30th, I’m teaching my full day course on how to lead and manage breakthrough projects in…
(Seattle) Presentation Camp – Saturday April 4th
Thanks to the kick-ass work of Kathy Gill, the first ever presentation camp in Seattle is scheduled to run…
How to Call Bullshit on a Guru or Expert
The longer I’m in the business of giving people advice, the more concerned I am about losing perspective. I…
Can a consultant be of use in one day?
A few weeks ago Ze Frank had an interesting post about the challenges of short term consulting. If the…
No holds barred tactics for UX in organizations
At Adaptive Path’s MX event this week (my write up here), 5 teams were given an afternoon to attack…
How to visually capture a talk or presentation
One of my favorite things at Adaptive Path’s MX event this week was how they had designers assigned to…
How do you teach leadership in high school?
I was recently asked by a high school teacher about ideas for teaching leadership to teenagers (She heard about…
Was your MBA worth it?
The Personal MBA folks have released a update to their reading list, the core of their program for people…
What I learned at FOO Camp 08
Background: Foo Camp is the legendary annual social/tech event O’Reilly Media runs for Friends of O‘reilly. Two things make…
The problem(s) with consultants
Over the last month I’ve spent more time than usual with consultants and it is making me miserable. Is…
Teaching kids creative thinking
The more I learn about creative thinking and about teaching, two subjects of great interest, the more depressing organized…
The pointless technology competition
Rube Goldberg was an engineering student who quickly realized he preferred making fun of engineers more than engineering things…