"Nobody ever died of a question." - Yiddish Proverb
Though I imagine a lot of people live(d)!

What happens to you when you are giving / watching a presentation? How does that differ from how you feel, think and act when you are part of a conversation?
Summary: Next time you are considering giving a presentation, why not look at facilitating a conversation instead?
More indepth:
A story/example:
I was invited to a "dialogue" - a facilitated generative conversation [...]

To all of you who have been (and are) reading my blog,

I was thinking I wanted to write something today and as I sat down I realised that one thing I hadn’t done was take the time to acknowledge you - the reader!
So, I today I want to take the time to say thank you!
Thank you!! My [...]

Please note: This is version 1.0 in an evolving story. Please add comments about what worked/not for you.
If you had the answer to the cure for cancer because of your particular way of thinking about things, would you keep it secret? What if everything you are carrying is as significant to someone else’s world, and the world at large, as [...]

In the vein of small things with the power to have big positive impacts here is one courtesy of Sister Mohini of the Brahma Kumari’s:
When you are feeling tension: stress, frustration etc - in your body, in a conversation, in your life - "simply add an "a" to the front" and ask:
"What am I needing to pay [...]

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A shameless plug for my friend and colleague, Zern Liew, whose new book, Cubicle Commando is hitting the shelves as we speak.
"Arming internal entrepreneurs with remarkable thinking, tips and techniques to help them live and breath innovation within the [...]

"Life is too precious to take it seriously…"
There is joy and laughter in everything!

Special thank you’s to the beautiful people I met over the last weekend at the "edge of emergence" dialogue and retreat! It was a privilege to meet you and be part of the changes together..and to find myself and joy again…and to dance!
Double [...]

How does one complete a marathon? How do you slow down and still get there?
You know how there are things that you ‘know’ and yet haven’t embodied yet? Like the world not being black and white…and such.
Well one such thing in addition to the black-white-no-it’s-grey-it’s-all-ebb-flow lesson, another major thing for me right now is [...]

"Simple rules, as with bird formation simulation, lead to complex [and beautiful] behaviour.

Complex rules, as with the tax law in most countries, lead to stupid behaviour"

- Andrew Hunt, The Pragmatic Programmers, read in "Getting Real" by 37signals

I need to be learning more about ’systems’ and more importantly, dynamic human systems (thanks Cole and Anthony). While beginning [...]

"Art is not about the object itself, any piece of art is a vehicle to bringing you an experience, to provoke a thought, an emotion or a new perspective. The art is the experience you have with the piece"
I just ‘discovered’ an artist who speaks to me: Mackenzie Thorpe and just had to share. I was [...]