Archive for April, 2008
Effective Presentation Design - what’s the evidence?
Posted by Sharon 21 April 2008Thanks to Coert Visser for the link to the Evidence Based Management website. I’ve enjoyed the work of Professors Pfeffer and Sutton over the years.
Their Hard Facts book provides good evidence to dispel some of our persistent management myths.
The website’s guest column, from Associate Professor Abela, gives us
10 principles for evidence-based presentation […]
The right thing vs the easy thing
Posted by Sharon 19 April 2008Today I was talking with my father, who is an avid garage sale attendee. Dad told me about a small chest of drawers he’d bought last week from a pensioner. It cost him $30 (which is a big amount for my dad, who prides himself on going to garage sales with only gold coins […]
How to deal with Shafters
Posted by Sharon 9 April 2008I was talking to a colleague recently about collaboration and we were lamenting how hard it is to stay in collaborative mode all the time. He said: “if I think they are a shafter, I go straight for the money - e.g, “sorry this is no longer a conversation, we are now consulting […]
Co-operative not Superior Specialists
Posted by Sharon 9 April 2008I’m working with a client whose strategy was to hire the best specialists and throw them together to solve the problems faced by their clients. You can imagine the result - not quite what the founders imagined. It’s similar to the outcomes described by Dr Meredith Belbin, the creator of the Belbin Team Roles […]
The Manager’s Toolkit - Modelling Excellence
Posted by Sharon 9 April 2008“The tool kit of every innovator typically includes three things: questions, experiments, and self-reliance.” Scott Berkun.
We have been delving into our innovator’s toolkit in our business lately to ask the question:
“If higher self confidence encourages our clients to try new things, what development experiments can we create to allow them to build their confidence?”
It’s a […]
Life’s a Garden
Posted by Sharon 3 April 2008Thanks to colleague Meiron Lees for his reminder that summer is over and the analogy of life as a flower. My take on it is this:
Life is a garden. What you put your attention (water) on flourishes. Things you don’t water tend to grow up stunted in some way, except for those pesky, […]