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Lewis Carroll on Change Management
In Lewis Carroll’s classic, Through the Looking Glass, the Red Queen admonishes Alice with “in this place it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” So much for the concept of a...
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Jeering at Jargon
The IT industry is afflicted with a brain eating virus for which there is no known cure. The medical term for this highly contagious disease is Argotism. The incubation period of the disease ranges...
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Notes Numbering Seven to a Meeting Planner
If you’re looking for “The Room that Eats Speakers” you’ll find it just below this article. The article I posted yesterday was warmly received by almost a thousand meeting planners, so I thought it...
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The Conference we’ll never Attend
Here’s the annual conference I’d love to attend:- “The World Conference on Failure” 20 Business and World Leaders honestly and openly discuss the decisions and actions which contributed to their...
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As Others See Us.
If you don’t recognize the tail end of this quote from Robert Burn’s ‘To a Louse’ then here it is in its entirety, “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel’s as others see us!”. Why am I...
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Work Flows Downhill
“The Internet ignores both political and geographic boundaries!” To anyone with even a minimal level of technical expertise, this statement is nothing more than a grade level observation. Yet if we use...
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Change Management Interview
Something different. A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by George Torok for his radio show Business in Motion. It’s a one hour conversation on the topic of Change...
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Making a Date with a Crisis
Regardless of our circumstances we often share the same thoughts. The notion “It can’t happen here”, is such a common way of looking at disaster, that even Kissinger got into the act with his famous...
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Why to Write
Writing serves many purposes – here are some of the reasons why I write (even why I participate in list serves) 1) It helps you think. If you can put an idea down on paper then you are inevitably...
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I get Twitter now – finally
About two weeks ago we saw one of the longest running threads on an ASAE listserve topic – about 4-5 dozen posts regarding Twitter. It was fascinating to watch and be a part of. It’s why I’m an ASAE...
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