Quotable quotes
About futures, foresight, imagination, play, storytelling, experiences and more.
What if climate change is a hoax?
What do you take away from the inimitable Joel Pett's cartoon? (© Joel Pett - for more of his work, see: https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/joel-pett/.)
The Blind Man and the Elephant
As we Walk the Tortoise today, let’s think about John Godfrey Saxe’s poem. What does an elephant look like to YOU?
How can you foster a culture of communication in your organisation?
Could an open-door policy be the answer?
How can you make sure that everyone contributes in a meeting?
Plan the meeting to make sure that you are crystal clear on the purpose. That’s one approach.
How can you diffuse drama in your team?
A quick overview of The Karpman Drama Triangle.
What if there was a process for giving kind but honest feedback?
Liz Lerman’s deceptively simple Critical Response Process or CRP.
What if it was possible to have productive, conflict-free conversations?
How we say things is just as important as what we say.
Re-naming and re-framing
A quick morning ponder on how arrogant humans are in their judgements of fish, and how quickly we change our minds when the communication changes.
Desiderata
The words in this beautiful text always make me feel hopeful. Just right for a pause to Walk the Tortoise!
A thought about small talk
Is cutting out the small talk a problem?
A recipe for cremation
Barlow Bonsall, Cook @ 1700 to 1800 degrees for 2 to 3 hours This is the text of a tattoo surrounded by a yellow and orange flame. It belongs to Army veteran and cancer survivor Russell Parsons, who was quoted in NBC News as saying, “It’s a recipe for cremation.”...
#divitips Make accordions closed by default
A short code snippet to use if you want all accordions to be closed by default in DIVI.
Do you inadvertently turn your statements into questions?
Raising your pitch at the end of a statement makes that statement sound like a question. Whether you’re communicating in person, online, or over the phone, this speech pattern can make you sound less confident, less credible, and uncertain about your content. This article talks about why we do it, and how to stop.
What’s in a name? Why getting people’s names right is part of effective communication.
Remembering someone’s name and pronouncing it correctly is a key part of making a positive impression. It’s also part of being a good communicator. Not bothering to remember someone’s name or continually pronouncing it incorrectly, or worse, using a name that they dislike (nicknames they didn’t choose, for example) tells people that you don’t value or respect them. Here are 9 things that you can do to remember people’s names, along with some information about why names matter, why we mess them up, and why, in a socially-distanced world, remembering names is more important than ever,
Full-length versions of Euripides’ & Seneca’s Trojan Women
A collection of full-length free video recordings of theatre performances of Trojan Women, most based on Euripides’ text, and two based on Seneca’s. Handy for classics scholars.