The Person To Person Economy: You Should Know…Richard Martin
So I have been narrowing my gaze a little recently, making my work more personal. This way, there is more skin in the game then when I get all high falutin’. Having an impact on a single person can...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 11: Visuals
When it comes to visuals, giant full-screen images with a large transparent overlay and capitalized headers seems to be the order of the day. Pecha Kucha is maybe 60% visual(?) so I should spend...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 12: Post-It Notes Make Life Easy
I sat down at the table the other night and laid out 20 post-it notes, and wrote 20 hashtags on them, and felt much better. I moved some of the notes around to test out the flow. I need to do it a bit...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 13: The Content
We are getting down to the wire now. The deadline for the slides for #PKyvr33 was yesterday, and I am basically there. One conundrum is the final slide – how do I best create an opportunity for MORE,...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 14: What Is…What Could Be…
I saw a tweet this week that the presentation pioneer Nancy Duarte practiced over 200 hours to prepare her TED Talk, of 18 minutes. That, friends, is commitment, perhaps not surprising for someone with...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 15: Me And Us. Us Is More Important.
Following on from yesterday’s post about Duarte’s ‘what is…’, ‘what could be…’ presentation rhythm, I moved a few slides around and think I have a decent rhythm that balances the content between me –...
View Article#PKyvr33 Day 16: No Room For #CAWW Today
Any regular TMWK visitor will know I can rattle on about the topics of #FutureOfWork, #SocBiz. Just look at the category choices on the right column. In the last year plus, Change Agents Worldwide has...
View Article#PKyvr33 Close Out: It Was All Worth It, From Beginning To End
SO, we are done and done. The pecha has been kuched, so to speak. It took a couple of weeks of thinking, iterating, practicing, culling, worrying, and letting go to get it done. It ended like this, in...
View ArticleWorking Out Loud For 6 Mins 40 Secs
This is me, talking about my work, trying to disorganize and test out future of work practices. It was fun, and it was pretty good, too, based on feedback I received. You should watch it, right? How...
View Article20 Slides x 20 Seconds; One Focus – Working Out Loud (Yo!)
I think this is called a precis review. Synthesize, synthesize. My Working Out Loud pecha kucha – Go! I am a (self-appointed) corporate disorganizer, and one way I experiment in this role is by…...
View ArticleIs It Time For Some Crazed Magic In Your Work Life? Let’s Work Out Loud Again...
John Stepper is preparing his e-book for publication on the topic of working out loud. John’s approach is nurturing and community-led. It has network theory at its heart, it is a transformative...
View ArticleWorking Out Loud is Unreasonable #WOLweek
It is time to get back to working out loud on the blog, after an interesting work trip to Australia (more on which, later). Today, writing up some notes from a tough, direct book by Doug Williamson...
View ArticleThis Much I Know From Working Out Loud (So Far) #WOLweek
As we reach the half-way point in the current International Work Out Loud week, a pause to reflect on the experience – from someone who has been through it before, as various depths of commitment. From...
View ArticleWorking Out Loud On Something About Which I Know Very Little #WOLweek
Yesterday I shared that I have built a #WOLweek presentation about my recent trip to Australia. I am no Australia SME, but I am willing to speak my truth of what I find, and to enter into discourse....
View ArticleAs Context Changes, So Does, Well, Everything. #WOLWeek
I will get to working out loud, but first some context setting. I went to Australia recently. Nothing particularly strange occurred, and Australia has a 90% overlap with my own life in Canada (and the...
View ArticleTurning Ourselves Inside Out: A #WOLWeek Reflection
It has been a good week, a contentious week, provoking. Working Out Loud is not supposed to be easy – if it were, there would be no need for a #Hashtag or for a ‘movement.’ Today I watched another...
View ArticleA Reflection On Working Out Loud Live #UnderTheStairs #WOLweek
Yesterday I reflected how Working Out Loud has given me the gift of a network, and a network effect, across the globe. I am dialled in and dialled up by the immense collective learning and sharing of...
View ArticleI Haven’t Been Working Out Loud (Enough) With The Right People #WOLweek
Working Out Loud is harder inside the organization – working with people who, generally, are given to you – than outside – where you get to choose your cohort, more or less. Want to chat about...
View ArticleWhich Side Of The Bed Do You Sleep On? Well, It Depends…#Context
I was writing last week – rather haphazardly, perhaps because of the topic – about context. Everything is context. There is very little that is universally understood. I’ll have to write about my...
View ArticleOn Discipline
Seth Godin’s “every day” principle influenced me in my writing – “you do not need to nap,” he says! That’s a stab to my kidneys, as rarely does a day pass without that luxurious thought flopping around...
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