2005 December

I got a gig in Istanbul

December 8, 2005 @ 11:25 am · Filed under Happy At Work, Speaking

I’ll be speaking at the 11th. human resources conference in Istanbul on February 22nd and 23rd 2006. The conference has a very interesting theme called Manifesto: A Fresh Look into Organisations, People and Leadership. The themes are:
* Discovering successful organizations with unconventional management approaches in place
* Exploring complexity science and its relationship to organisations
* Bringing a different look into organisational development, human capital management and work culture
* Changing our minds about our firms: human corporations, companies as living systems, adaptive enterprise
* Redefining leadership

Sounds cool to me :o)

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Olive solitaire. Olitaire?

December 7, 2005 @ 8:46 am · Filed under Design, Silly

This made me laugh. Clever.

Via BoingBoing.

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Death to PowerPoint

December 5, 2005 @ 3:40 pm · Filed under Design, Happy At Work, Learning

Creating Passionate Users is the best blog I’ve found recently, and Kathy Sierra’s post on how not to use PowerPoint is very funny and smart.

Sometimes the best presentation is… no presentation. Ditch the slides completely. Put the projector in the closet, roll the screen back up, and turn the damn lights back on!

Especially if the slides are bullet points. Or worse… paragraphs.
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The second you dim the lights and go into “presentation mode” is the moment you move from a two-way conversation to a one-way lecture/broadcast. It’s hard to be interactive when you’re behind your laptop, at a podium, watching your slides on the small screen.

Read it!

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Quote

December 5, 2005 @ 10:11 am · Filed under Philosophy, Quotes

So, I’m saying, “This I believe: I believe there is no God.”

Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I’m not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it’s everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I’m raising now is enough that I don’t need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.

Believing there’s no God means I can’t really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That’s good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.

- Penn Jillette

This I believe too. Read the rest of it here.

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