📝 Writing
This is where most of the writing lives. 650+ posts since 2016 - some about learning and creative work, some about whatever I couldn't let go of that week. A restaurant that changed fine dining, a Nintendo executive who saved the company, a Gmail interface for leaked documents...
Learning, Education & Growth
The Educator in Residence
Why a different type of EIR could be your firm’s new secret weapon
In 1989, the Hollywood talent agency
Coaching
Coaching: Three agendas for exploration
This is part of a series of articles derived from my coaching certification
assessment.
There are numerous coaching models used
Mindsets & Growth
When you see…
There are some things that once you see, you just can’t un-see.
Your view of the world changes.
However,
In The Neighborhood
Orbiting the Orbit: On Tour Again
Still one of my favourite tripped out deep house tracks, and a game-changer for
the 17-year-old me. The Second-Hand Satellites.
Mindsets & Growth
Talking to Humans: Go anonymous
> “praise by name, criticize by category.”
Warren Buffett
Or to put it another way: Praise Specifically, Criticize Generally
>
Learning Innovation
Talking to Humans: No intro, no get-go
The value of the introduction when you’re running workshops, leading a class, or
doing most types of speaking to
Mindsets & Growth
I don’t do name tags
The other night I went to an information event for a program I’d registered
interest in.
It was held
Mindsets & Growth
Fear, Envy, and Contempt
These are three powerful feelings.
They show up in many areas of our lives. Here are a few examples.
Finding
Coaching
Group Dynamics: Sitting in Circle
If you’ve spent any time in coaching, meditation, education, mediation, or
consulting you may have heard the phrase or
Mindsets & Growth
What was it like?
When someone describes an experience, we may hear ourselves asking ‘What was it
like?’.
We’re being curious, taking an
Future Of Work
The important thing before on-boarding
It’s not just about what happens once they’re on board and the vessel is setting
sail.
It’s
Adventures #31: The ways we behave and the signals we send
Best of...
Learnings from the other side of an accelerator program
In the Spring of 2018, I was approached about collaborating on a new project
being presented by New York City’
Culture & Insights
Great (Un)Expectations
Below is a very lightly edited version of a brief introduction I gave at the
final presentation day for the
Stage Left
The Educator’s End Credits
They don’t exist right now.
Of course, there’s the bibliography for a book or research paper, but as
The Tension
Alchemy before Chemistry
You’ve probably heard people talk about chemistry: in work, in life, in love.
You may hear about it far
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
No Reply = No Interest?
Next week marks the 31st edition of my monthly email newsletter which I started
in late 2015.
As you’ve