My speaking gigs
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I’m writing this from the VIP room at the MCT HR conference in Istanbul (it’s good to be a speaker). The conference was kicked off by some good presentations:
After a very nice lunch, there are several sessions to choose from this afternoon – we’ll see who wins the race.
And of course the best part of any conference is making new friends and having great conversations – and this conference certainly doesn’t disappoint. More updates later.
A short while ago I spoke at one of the best conferences I’ve ever been to: The WorldBlu Forum on Organizational Democracy. Previous coverage here, here, here and here.
The organizers have put up podcasts with many of the speakers including Dan Pink, David Weinberger and … me (7 min., 8 Mb mp3) being interviewed by the charming and delightful Susanne Goldstein. I somehow manage to go all the way back to Aristotle and the Dalai Lama and then talk about happiness at work and how it relates to democratic workplaces.
I’m speaking at an HR conference in Istanbul next month, a leading turkish newspaper wanted to do an interview by email about happiness at work. They sent me some great questions, which I answered as best I could. The best part about great questions is that they leave you and the questioner wiser.
Below are the questions and my answers, which contain some of our basic thoughts on happiness at work.
Roosevelt Finlayson (of the Festival in the Workplace) called me from the Bahamas yesterday to catch up. During our talk we discussed my future plans (among many other things) and he challenged me to document the process I’m currently going through. That’s a great idea and what better place to do it than right here on the blog.
And what better way to start than by telling the story so far. So here it is, the story of the geek who:
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)
Yesterday I gave one of the best speeches I’ve ever given on happiness at work to Junior Chambers Copenhagen. What made it good? This I think:
1: I opened up the speech by showing them my prepared notes (on little cue-cards)
2: I then made a display of tearing them up and throwing them away
3: And then I had the audience call out suggestions for topics they’d like to hear about
It also doesn’t hurt if you have an attentive, interested and active crowd listening.
I’m blogging my experiences, thoughts and ideas at the WorldBlu Forum at the forum website.
I’m now at the Worldblu Forum in Washington DC, and the event is slowly gearing up. People are starting to arrive from the US, China, Iraq, Bahamas, Estonia, Denmark, etc. I keep meeting cool people who do incredibly cool stuf all around the world, and who’re drawn here by the idea of organizational democracy.
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