The Tension
Suggestible, Susceptible?
All us humans are suggestible.
Entire industries have been built in part to exploit this trait: advertising,
hypnosis, magic.
To
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Resources
The Portfolio Career Podcast
Two of things I love most about New York are its pay-it-forward approach and its
densely networked nature.
This combination
Mindsets & Growth
The Prestige
> “Now you’re looking for the secret.
But you won’t find it because of course, you’re not
Learning Innovation
80/20 in Group Dynamics
In a group of say a dozen people, you may notice 80% of the people speak. 20%
don’t.
In
Learning, Education & Growth
Your Dunbar number
Dunbar’s number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom
one can maintain stable social
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Be Like Bowie
On a cold London morning in 2016, I headed over to the rarified climes of
Mayfair for a meeting.
It
Coaching
The arcade of the multiple mirrors
Let’s take a trip to a theme park.
This theme park is expansive, multi-layered, and stretches out as far
Learning Innovation
Winning at the great game: How to improve student results
The consistently excellent Farnam Street podcast recently featured a marathon
episode with the investor and educator Adam Robinson. It was
The Tension
Tension
It’s everywhere we look. It shows up in our environment, in politics, in our
work, in our interactions.
Dealing
Learning Innovation
The 2 most important slides for your workshop
They’re obvious, but often missed.
They’re not glamorous, entertaining, jaw-dropping, or photogenic.
But they make a lasting impact,
Storytelling
The Crier, The Glue, The Word, and The Arrow
Go back a few hundred years and if you wanted to get the word out you may well
have chosen
Resources
How to articulate your vision in 4 post-it notes
Here’s an exercise I picked up at a dinner event I attended this past weekend.
It’s intended to
Podcast
Tickets Podcast: Gary Chou and Christina Xu on entrepreneurship education and harnessing the power of networks
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Coaching
Coaching: Stories can lead to solutions
A coaching client came to me to discuss a challenge they had at work.
This client works in an executive
Stage Left
Bringing the Essential Mix to work
For over 25 years, the UK’s BBC Radio One has hosted a weekly Saturday night
show called the Essential
The Tension
Pressure brings performance - or does it?
> “Pressure brings performance”
You may have heard this saying.
It’s a nice maxim, but is it just a
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
5 x Why, 5 x Who
You may have heard about the 5 Whys [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys].
It was originally developed at
Learning, Education & Growth
“You had to be there”
When we’re told a joke or a tale that falls a little flat we may hear a sheepish
response