Archive for December, 2007
Should you be working in consulting?
In a post from my friend Chad Amberg’s blog, he outlines the Top Ten Things You’ll Never Hear From Your Consultant. My favorites:
3. How about paying us based on the success of the project?
8. I can’t take the credit. It was Ed in your marketing department.
9. The problem is, you have too much work for too few people.
Read what Chad has to say about number four, though. Ghastly.
Acting Out in Class
By way of Lifehacker today comes Darren Barefoot’s interesting article, Everything I Know About Presentations, I Learned in Theatre School
Plenty of excellent high-level pointers on how to make your presentations more compelling and coherent, how to keep people awake and engaged, and how to have your audience leave the room with more than they came in with.
This is your brain on paper
Just in time for Christmas, BoingBoing shows us a beautiful map of the human brain:
If you go to New Zealand’s Unit Seven Web site, you can get free desktop wallpaper images and can purchase high-quality prints. The perfect gift for the brain lover!
There May Be an OTCC Training in the Spring
Barbara Stepp just mentioned in her newsletter, Stepp’s for Better Living, that there may be another OTCC training with Dave Dobson coming up:
If Dave is up to it we may be doing something with OTCC and NFP in Friday Harbor in the spring. We will let you know as soon as we know.
Watch this space, or visit Barbara’s site to subscribe to her newsletter.