My friend, Cindy, forwarded me a link to the best article I’ve read in a very, very long time. It’s written by Washington Post staff writer, Gene Weingarten, and it’s entitled, “Pearls before breakfast.” (M78) The essence of the article is this. Take Joshua Bell, one of the finest classical violinists in the world. [...]
I couldn’t make NTEN‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference last week, so I’ve been living vicariously through the various blog and Flickr posts. My favorite so far? Beth Kanter‘s really fun vlog promoting next year’s conference in The Big Easy. (M75) Beth also won NTEN’s inaugural Fantasticness Award. (What a brilliant idea for an award!) Congratulations, [...]
Deborah Meehan led the Leadership Learning Community‘s board through a quick exercise today that was partially inspired by Gail Taylor‘s “love” experiment. She read us a quote from last year’s Creating Space conference, then asked us to write down five words we think of when we hear the words “Learning Community.” We each wrote our [...]
Most of the blogs I subscribe to are by folks whom I know, or folks whom are two degrees away. I don’t search for interesting things to read — way too much of that already — but occasionally, minor perturbations uncover new and interesting things. Today, I discovered Mark Shead‘s blog, Productivity501, via an indirect [...]
Collaboration is a meta-discipline. It is usually the means, not the end. You don’t collaborate for collaboration’s sake; you collaborate to accomplish some bounded goal. Making the means the end is tricky business. When you eliminate the context, it’s easy to shift from thoughtful practice to ivory tower jibber jabber and suffer the consequences of [...]
Thanks to next week’s Creating Space, Collective Leadership has been on my mind a lot recently. It’s also been a key element of the new Identity Commons. One of the issues we’ve been grappling with is decision-making. To understand why this is a challenge, you have to understand the underlying structure and philosophy of the [...]
Normally, I love to travel, but last year tested that love. I was out of town almost twice a month for work. It was exhilarating, exhausting, and ultimately, too much. I resolved not to travel for the first four months of 2007. It’s now April 2007, and I’ve successfully fulfilled my resolution (depending on how [...]
Another excerpt from Otto Scharmer‘s new book, Theory U: Leading from the Future as it Emerges, The Social Technology of Presencing. This one’s about listening. (M55) In my years of working with groups and organizations I have identified four basic types of listening. (M56) “Ya, I know that already.” The first type of [...]
Last July, I spent a few days in Staunton, Virginia co-leading a strategic gathering with Kellee Sikes for the Imergence project. I had been burning the midnight oil in the days leading up to gathering, meeting with potential partners and funders during the day, and working on my other projects late into the evening. When [...]
Gordon McCreight showed off his latest silly creation, pageoftext.com, at the last WikiWednesday. It’s a silly concept, and it’s got a silly lack of features. What’s really silly is how useful this silly little concept is. It’s considerably simpler than Writeboard, slightly more featureful than the various Pastebins, and better than both. (M4D) pageoftext.com [...]
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