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 thought from a phone conversation with a friend today on reality being more than meets the eye "Not everything that can be seen is real/true, and not everything that is real/true can be seen" – me (Natalie Shell) (thanks to Einstein for the syntax: Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything [...]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes" – Marcel Proust Am wanting to create some form of 6 thinking hats equivalent with lens…ie you pop something over your eyes and thus can only think a particular way…I think different ways of thinking take practice, or [...]

This post is a summary, mostly to serve as a reminder, of some of my thinking at this time about complex and simple… The Short: An Analogy Today we live in a world that would prefer to eat a table spoon of white sugar over digesting an apple for instance, and in the digestion ending [...]

I have been in a very thinking heavy mode at the moment, examining patterns and lessons in my life, and what I tend to store vs what I tend to forget: What are the patterns in my life? What are the re-occuring patterns in my life? What are the positive patterns I want to foster? What lessons am [...]

“The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays -"Circles” Many friends and colleagues will tell you of my fascination with circles and how [...]

"Innovation is hard to schedule." Dan Fylstra To read some of my thoughts on innovation visit my post on Vermillion’s blog.

How can we gain sight of the invisible? Disclaimer: Below is version 1, the murky version of my thoughts. If you don’t like to get dirty, or you are expecting a clear paragraph please don’t. If you want to pick this apart, feel free, but don’t assume I have an argument/case fixed yet. I haven’t. That means [...]

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." – – Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) Perhaps it is time to have your vision grow some roots to anchor it?  Perhaps it is time to build that vision in this [...]

Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? – Kelvin Throop III Incidently don’t you just love how with all our knowledge and developments animals, such as cows*, and some of those with arthritis seem to predict rain better than the forecasters can?  While musing I am suddenly remembering a [...]