Smoking helps you relax – a new perspective
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Humor & comedy
A big picture, Mountain Life Lens™ perspective. Fresh. Or maybe not so much 🙂 ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & worldview.~~
Tags: humour, life lenses, smoking
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: An Introvert’s 6 Step Guide to Networking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on networking. Missed the newsletter? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Whatsamatter you? Sign up for free here.) In a recent post I shared the article ‘An Introvert’s 6 Step Guide to Networking’ from my newsletter. Missed it? Check it out here. In this post I’ll […]
Tags: geeks on a plan, introvert, lovesocial, networking, nexus, TED
The Rock.Paper.Scissors newsletter is out: An Introvert’s 6 Step Guide to Networking
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
This month’s Rock.Paper.Scissors e-newsletter focuses on networking. Missed the newsletter? Check it out. (Not on my monthly e-newsletter mailing list? Whatsamatter you? Sign up for free here.) Have any of these ever happened to you? You find yourself standing alone amidst a sea of interesting looking folks, all of whom look like they know everyone […]
Tags: introvert, networking, nexus
Perspective truly is everything
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
Perspective is truly everything. What do you see above? A mansion? An idyllic, huge pool? What about from this view? A little smaller? A little more contained? Here’s ‘reality’ (from Shaun McLane’s facebook page). ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about enhancing our perspective & […]
Tags: perspective, shaun mclane
How do you get guerrillas to demobilize? By appealing to their human side
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Creativity & innovation
Jose Miguel’s Wired article ‘How I Tamed Guerrillas with Guerilla Marketing’ speaks for itself, in its quest to turn perspective on its head. The setting? Deep in the Columbian jungle. The problem? Getting Guerrillas to demobilize. The answer? Appealing to the guerrillas human side. In our quest to find new things to say, we became […]
Tags: guerilla marketing, life lenses, perspective
Dementia Quiz – test yourself with these 4 funny questions
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Humor & comedy
Here are 4 questions to test for dementia (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). (Answers appear below.) 1. You are a participant in a race. You overtake the second person. What position are you in? 2. If you overtake the last person, then you are in what place? 3. Very tricky arithmetic! Note: this must […]
Tags: assumptions, humour
How Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook Gave New Life To An Old Management Style (from Fast Company)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
The following are excerpts from a Fast Company article by Katerina Walter (read the whole article here) – great examples of two very different perspectives working well together, each complimenting & filling in, the other’s shadows without diminishing their own bright spots. The first example is the yin yang pairing of Facebook’s founder Marc Zuckerberg […]
Tags: communication, facebook, fast company, life lenses, walt disney
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
This is classic Go Life Lens™. Jump in. Take a risk. Push the boundaries. Go for it. What have you got to loose? (Inspired by my colleague & friend Jean du Plessis, the image is from Sweet Surrender.) ~~TGIF- each Friday I rejig & re-post a blog entry from my www.life-lenses.com blog, which is about […]
Tags: life lenses, perspective
The benefits of seeing clearly- a funny video from Living Social
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Humor & comedy
I spoke at the Social Media Strategies Summit in London, where Philip Briffett from Living Social showed this video as part of his presentation. I laughed & then I quickly searched for it on the web so I could share it with you. I completely relate, having reading glasses scattered throughout my home, office & […]
Tags: humour, perspective
Learning & Development Roundtable – Drum Cafe Style
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
For about a year & a half now I’ve been organizing a monthly learning & development roundtable in Nairobi. (Check out the link for a list of our workshop topics & resources.) We are an eclectic group from NGO’s, corporate companies & the UN. Each month we have a different speaker. This month we were […]