Articles Archive for March 2006
Creative »
Dave Gray at Communication Nation is conducting an experiment in facilitating an asynchonous conversation with Maish R. Nichani who writes the elearningpost blog. I've seen just a couple of attempts at creating an open, evolving dialogue like this on other blogs so it will be interesting to see what happens. What's particularly interesting are some of the initial comments from Maish about our learned lack of comfort with being uncomfortable. As someone with children just entering the U.S. educational system, his thoughts run parallel to my own - we either need to worrk to change the system (which is an...
Career, Creative »
Well, for me at least. I've been stopped cold in my tracks today by two deeply probing questions offered by Dick Richards at Come Gather Round: For what has my life been preparing me? What kind of me is my work creating? I need to reflect on the first question because I'm wandering now and not in the good kind of way. After a recent foray in the world of self-employment (and later unemployment), I am most thankful to have stable work that pays...but true to my self and my beliefs that is simply not enough. I'm seeking to rediscover...
Career, Work »
I have great and constantly growing respect for the work of David St Lawrence who writes at Ripples: Post-Corporate Adventures. His writing about our modern workplace is frank and often not pretty. It reminds me of the times I go for hikes and discover a beautiful stone only to pick it up and see all the worms and bugs crawling around beneath it. I'll admit that there are times when I enter into a state of denial and think his experiences and outlook can't possibly be accurate...I mean, are workplaces really that bad? The answer, like most everything else in...
Media »
I came across this article from the UK-based Guardian Newspaper online. Turns out I might not be as well-read as I thought. Museum, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in Britain asked librarians around the country, "Which book should every adult read before they die?" At the top of the list was To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, followed by the Bible and then The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkien. Here's others - both classics and contemporary fiction - that made the list: 1984 by George Orwell A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Jane Eyre...
Business »
Arnie Herz at Legal Sanity recently wrote a post referencing some familiar advice for crafting an effective elevator speech. The latest conventional wisdom would have us believe that the best elevator pitch is not about us, but about the other individual. The principal strategy is to set our needs to the side and focus exclusively on the needs of the potential customer, member, or client. After all, the reason we're in business to service them, isn't it? Well, yes and no. Arnie writes that this strategy misses a greater point: Business relationships are as much about valuing and evincing our...
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