Pier 39, home to a dozen restaurants and a thousand sea lions.
Thirty years ago my boss gave me an assignment I’ll never forget.
“I’ve rented a Santa Claus costume for tonight’s Christmas party,” he said.
“Great!” I replied.
“And you are going to wear it,” he told me.
That evening I changed into the red suit and beard in the parking lot San Francisco’s Pier 39.
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Now You See It: How Technology and Brain Science Will Transform Schools and Business for the 21st Century by Cathy N. Davison, a polymath professor at Duke. 2011. 292 pages. $11.68 (paperback) on Amazon.
I finished reading Cathy Davidson’s Now You See It yesterday afternoon. It is brilliant. Extremely well-written. Nearly impossible to put down. I love the way this woman thinks. This is a beautiful book.
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Working Smarter Daily points to ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 patterns, social psychology, value network analysis, anthropology, complexity theory, and more. These disciplines add up to what I call “working smarter.”
Working smarter embraces the spirit of agile software, action learning, social networks, and parallel developments in many Continue reading
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Dan Pink has written another best seller. (The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) The U.S. Government reports that one worker in eight is a sales person. Dan disagrees. He thinks we’re all sales people, even though a lot of us are engaged in “non-sales selling.” Instructors, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and you and I spend a lot of Continue reading
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Dan Pink has written another best seller. (The book won’t be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.)
The U.S. Government reports that one worker in eight is a sales person. Dan Pink disagrees. He thinks we’re all sales people, even though a lot of us are engaged in “non-sales selling.” Instructors, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and you and I spend a lot of time persuading, influencing, and convincing others to do something even though it doesn’t ring the cash register.
What do the following people have in common?
Tuesday, December 18. 1:30 Pacific. Google Un-Hangout.
Please join our conversation about anything related to learning in organizations.
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Join our Learning Community.
At the appointed hour, I’ll open the Hangout.
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Have your video cam and audio ready to go.
Dan Pink’s new book