U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes
I published my 2nd e-book this week, on Amazon. It’s titled: U Connect: The Art of Making Connections to Resolve Disputes. It’s a consolidation of some my observations, along with insights I’ve culled from others, around “making connections”. Here’s the Table of Contents and here’s the Introduction section: “Disputes happen. How do we respond? One [...]
Creative Thinkering: Video Book Review
Are you a problem-solver? Do you find yourself struggling to come up with creative ideas? Then I recommend you check out Michael Michalko’s books. I did. Here’s my video report on his latest book, Creative Thinkering: Putting Your Imagination to Work. (video not displaying? click here). And, here’s a short summary of some of the [...]
10 Diverse ways to build your capacity to appreciate the Other
My first blogging inclination this week was to write a glorious followup to a post I wrote a year ago, on strategies to reduce the income inequality gap. Getting into it, I quickly discovered I may have overstretched myself. Rather than snap, I humbly offer this alternative… It is through our shared disconnection, that movements [...]
Just Enough: Reframing the Paradox of Social Media
Reframing is about changing the game. It’s about how we describe a conflict. There is no shortage of buzz about a personal conflict many of us wrestle with, our struggle to maintain attention, focus, in a world of digital busyness, the world of social media. Social media is a paradox. On the one hand, it [...]
It’s a Mediator’s World
I spent yesterday in Vancouver, at an all-day gathering with my court mediation colleagues. Part information sharing, part community building, always a learning experience… these types of get-together I really enjoy. There were a number of presenters during the day. I was one of them, on the topic of Collaborating on Business Development. That was [...]
The Future Value of Increased Collaboration
It’s a wondrous world. Just finished Michael Ondaatje’s book about his conversations with the seminal film editor, Walter Murch, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film. A companion to Murch’s own book, In the Blink of an Eye. Two books; each shedding new light on my understanding of “collaboration”. In my previous [...]
Culture Clash for Innovation
I’m reading The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje. I got introduced to this book by local filmmaker Mandy Leith, one of the presenters at the recent Wired Words symposium I attended, in Victoria. Murch is one of the 20th century’s great film editors, having worked on many classics; [...]
Diversity: A pathway to connection, common ground and innovation
Diversity is a hallmark of innovative teams. One of the best ways to expand your own problem-solving capabilities is to diversify; apply a different lens, different perspective, to the problem. Traditional pathways If you’re a facilitator, you know how to build bridges between people’s differences, find common ground, as a stepping stone to joint solutions [...]
Walk Out Walk On: Video Book Review
Walk Out Walk On. What a great title for a book. It could apply to many things. Yes? In this post it applies to the latest book from Margaret Wheatley, a book she co-authored with Deborah Frieze. Both women are associated with the Berkana Institute, an organization that believes “whatever is the problem, community is [...]
From Collaboration to Innovation
How do people collaborate, and turn their creativity and hard work into innovation? Join me for an interactive workshop I’m giving on March 5, and we’ll do our best to answer that question. Here’s the info… What: “From Collaboration to Innovation” Where: Camosun College (Victoria) – Interurban Campus When: Saturday, March 5, 2011 Time: 9-4 [...]
