I use lots of tools for writing. The other day, I talked about the importance of writing practice. Today, as I’m working on a new speech, I wanted to share another tool I use: mind mapping.
Before you ask, because the technology minded of you often do, this particular mindmapping software is called Mind [...]
What’s your take on cubicles? Are you in one? Are you happy there? In this episode of Kitchen Table Talks, I ask you where you are in the spectrum of cubicle farmers. It’s just an opening for some further conversations down the road. Call this a pulse-taking:
Here’s a review of Alexandra Levit’s new book, New Job, New You: A Guide to Reinventing Yourself in a Bright New Career (amazon affiliate link). I really enjoy Alexandra’s style. She’s published many good books in the career space, and this is a very timely one for the displacement era that we find ourselves in. [...]
Where do you get your ideas for your blog? I get this question a lot. Do you? The question is a bit more telling than the answer, I’m afraid. You see, I have more topics and ideas than I have time to write about. I write two or three posts every time I sit [...]
First, thanks to Steve Garfield for recommending I use a stack of books and a tripod for shooting my video. His great advice shows up in his new book, Get Seen (amazon affiliate link).
So, this is about Chip and Dan Heath’s really amazing new book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard [...]
Starting a new video series for 2010. Kitchen Table Talks will be all about the experiments and nurturing and big ideas that bring us success in our lives. In this episode, I highlight two books: Change the Way You See Everything through Asset-Based Thinking (amazon affiliate link), and 180 climbing the two ladders to inner [...]
I’m getting tons of tweet requests to help Haiti by retweeting things. This is, in and of itself, okay.
What needs to happen, however, is that we have to be specific and point to details, and we have to give people the right kind of information to be helpful. For instance, look at Chris Messina’s [...]
It’s totally my fault. I’ll start up front by admitting that. Southwest Airlines was kind enough to sponsor my flight to and from the Social Media Club Dallas event, and I’m grateful for that kindness. But it all got messed up in the end, oddly thwarted by not having the right piece of paper [...]
Farmers are fairly no-nonsense types. They wake up, get breakfast, and do their chores. They live by the season, worry about the yield, and think in reasonably conservative terms about what’s going to work for them. You think construction workers are sexy? Let’s talk about your farmer list.
Your Farmer List
I’m sending more and more collaboration tasks and conversations to Google Wave. I use it in place of the phone for a very simple reason: I’m not on the ground and in people’s time zones often enough to make the phone convenient. But further, it allows us both to see the conversation and refer [...]
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