How mountains & cantaloupes go together when it comes to the high view
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication
After laughing out loud at this one, and firmly pushing back memories of ugh-inducing highschool algebra classes that threatened to emerge, the cartoon made me think of the lessons that cantaloupes a.k.a. Mountain Life Lenses™ have to teach us. On a bad day Carrot Life Lenses™ (Mountain’s polar opposite) can have their head buried in [...]
Tags: carrot lens, communication, mountain lens, perspective, worldview
There are years that ask questions and years that answer
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Diversity & culture
In the book Their Eyes Were Watching God author Zora Neale Hurston writes there were years that ask questions and years that answer. Besides being a sentence that made me jolt to a stop and ponder, it’s a great way to frame the new year. Which will it be for you? Which worldview will broaden [...]
Tags: answers, perspective, questions, their eyes were watching god, worldview, zora neale hurston
Time for audience participation (that means you): we see what we expect to see
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
I love traveling by train so when I found myself on the platform in Amsterdam looking for the right platform I was like a kid looking forward to an ice cream cone on a hot summer’s day. (The fact that I was headed to Paris didn’t hurt either.) Despite a well-organized system though I couldn’t [...]
Tags: John Lubbock, life lenses, perspective, telus, thalys, worldview
The view from Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter) on a bad, very bad day
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, training & development
The word’s aflutter with the release of the new Harry Potter movie, which made my kids take the opportunity to watch a previous version, specifically the Order of the Phoenix. We were all snuggled up in bed watching when it occurred to me that the character Dolores Umbridge is a great example of a worldview, [...]
Tags: delores umbridge, harry potter, learning & development, life lenses, perspective, worldview
Fray or fringe worldview; you can choose
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, creativity & innovation
Recently I wrote a post about how to look at the edges of a carpet as a metaphor for life. You know the bits of a carpet that aren’t neatly sewn up but rather hang there loosely at the edges? Do you see those bits as fray – as messy, a nuisance and unorganized? Or [...]
Tags: change management, change management & wellness, creativity & innovation, learning, perspective, worldview
Cultural intelligence and the UN Rio World Urban Forum
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, Conflict resolution, Diversity & culture, Social Responsibility, Travel
What’s your CQ? You may be familiar with IQ, social intelligence and emotional intelligence but the new kid on the block is cultural intelligence. I’m in Rio de Janiero, Brazil at the United Nations World Urban Forum. I’ve just finished doing a workshop on cultural intelligence, which is a combination of meta-cognition, skills and knowledge, [...]
Tags: assumptions, brazil, complexity, Conflict resolution, cultural intelligence, culture, heath, intelligence, intercultural, made to stick, united nations, world urban forum, worldview