Don’t tell people what to think. Create a space for them to think in. This week I stumbled upon Paula Caproni’s insight into the essence of communicating effectively by telling powerful stories. Something shifted, something deep in the root of my storytelling toolkit. Can you picture communication as preparing to welcome guests [...]
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Stories Create Space for Readers to Think In
Posted: May 31, 2011 in Arts, Communications, Creativity, Public Relations, Social Networking, Writing, Writing Down the BonesTags: Arts, Associations, Education, Facebook, Performing Arts, Social media, Storytelling, Transmedia storytelling
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Swift Trust: predict high performance teams
Posted: May 18, 2011 in Communications, Digging for Bones, Gotta Bone to Pick, Human Behaviour, Leaders, Marketing, Psychology, Public Relations, Social Marketing, Social NetworkingTags: Decision making, Harvard Business Review, Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Management, Marathon, Project team, Sport, trust
When we need to work quickly and competently on complex problems with people we don’t know, Meyerson, Weick and Kramer say: use “swift trust”. With this pseudo trust, medical teams and cockpit crews establish a temporary interdependence that saves lives. Without it, people die. In a less dramatic example, the consequences of operating without “swift [...]
Social Media Identity Game: find yourself online
Posted: May 12, 2011 in Human Behaviour, Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, TECHNOLOGYTags: Facebook, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Real life, Sherry Turkle, Technology, Twitter, Virtual community, Virtual reality
Blurring the lines between who you are today and who you want to be is desirable, like taking a car for a test drive before you commit. If you don’t like who you are, supreme makeover online costs nothing. Or does it? Experiment and improvise online Social iteration, the constructing of new selves online, is [...]
Polar Bear lost to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Oil
Posted: March 11, 2011 in Courage, Digging for Bones, ENVIRONMENT, Fear, Film, Funny bone, Gotta Bone to Pick, Leaders, Ocean, Social Networking, Survival, TECHNOLOGYTags: Arctic, Atlantic Ocean, Auyuittuq National Park, Billy Connolly, Churchill River, Deep Sea Oil, Ecosystem, Global warming, Inuvik, Northwest Passage, Offshore Drilling, Oil Exporation, Pacific Ocean, Polar bear, United States
Polar Bear loses to Global Warming: Billy Connolly booms about Arctic Offshore Oil Drilling Bonanza I get chills up and down my spine when someone like Scottish comedian Billy Connolly traces the Northwest Passage through the Arctic Circle at Canada’s extreme north and drops a bombshell. The Scotsman travels by dog sled and fishing trawler [...]
Following the Tribe: Don’t make me think!
Posted: January 8, 2011 in Communications, Courage, Digging for Bones, Human Behaviour, Inspiration, Leaders, Psychology, Social Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, TECHNOLOGY, Writing Down the BonesTags: Belonging, FOLLOW, Groupthink, Hans Christian Andersen, independence, Kitty Genovese, leadership, Malcolm Gladwell, Social Alliances, social networking, THINK, Tipping Point, TRIBE, unplug, viral
What happens to make an idea blaze up like a raging grass fire or 12-alarm catastrophe? What conditions have to exist to give birth to a magical viral trend that infects the human imagination? Fire and water both move along the lines of least resistance. Social alliances, the common ground among people, move like that [...]
Top Ten Reasons not to start an online home business
Posted: November 20, 2010 in Arts, Courage, Gotta Bone to Pick, Social Media, Social Networking, Survival, TECHNOLOGY, Wishbones, Working BonesTags: Betty Edwards, Brewster Ghiselin, Comedy, CREATIVITY, Facebook, Glacier, Home Business, HubSpot, HUMOR, Humour, INSPIRATION, Marketing, Michael Polanyi, People, Technology, Top Ten Reasons, TweetDeck, Vincent van Gogh, Writing, YouTube
NEED HELP TO DIG OUT – HOMEBOUND – FIRST SNOW! Like a teenager catapulting from the gym wall at the high school dance, our first snow day lunged in, caught me by the ankles and knocked me over this morning. (Winnipeg has two seasons, winter and construction.) Until snowplows dig canyons through the drifts hugging [...]
