There is a dark side of training. A few years back there was an article in The Wall Street Journal about corporate training. It said flat-out that training without follow-up coaching doesn’t work. It’s a waste of time and money.… Read More »Dark Side of Training
Many moons ago I went to California to work for Jump. Jump is a company that reengineers, transforms, and gives birth to other companies. Check them out. The company has a rare and remarkable culture. They wanted their… Read More »A Better Coach Thanks to Jump
Underneath what you do is who you are. Who you are is mostly immeasurable, since you are so many things. The artist Aligheiro Boetti added an ampersand between his first and last name. He did it to demonstrate that he was not single, but multiple selves. He became Aligheiro & Boetti…
Most of us are not happy presenters. Consider the complications: the drill of assembling our ideas, putting them in order, finding that, nope, they’re out of order, rearranging them, developing slides, exhausting our eyes as we create clever little graphics,… Read More »The Happy Presenter
When a possum is threatened, he contracts into a ball, while bears do the opposite. They stand on their hind legs to make themselves look bigger. Chameleons change color and remain perfectly still, while peacocks expand their tail-feathers to assert their dominance.… Read More »On playing possum and peacock preening