Training & development learning well April blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
If you didn’t catch all the posts last month simply peruse & click what’s below. Here’s the Rock.Paper.Scissors’ monthly training & development round up for the month of April. Learn well in the training & development learning well. Dive deep into the learning well or take a small sip. Shower yourself in training & development […]
Tags: columbus, creativity & innovation, innovation, juozas cernius, perspective
Another view of discovery – Columbus’ view reworked
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
Perspective is powerful, potent thing. It can illuminate & enlighten. It can also dampen & darken. Ownership, culture, discovery, holidays – they’re all imbued with perspective, with a particular worldview. ~~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: columbus, perspective
We are like herd animals, warily sniffing, tails in the air, ready to sound the alert for danger
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
“Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.” ~ Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977), U.S. anthropologist & writer. I love the visuals in this quote. Decidedly different = warily sniffing, tails in the air, ready to sound the alert for danger. How do we overcome our urge to […]
Tags: anthropology, diversity, loren eiseley
How do you experience your perspective, your life?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: Linh.Ngan I spend a lot of time thinking about perspective. How do you see the world? How does it compare to how I see the same world? Our perspective is framed by our cultures, including our gender, age, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, religious/spiritual beliefs, where we live (urban/rural), where […]
Tags: culture, perspective
Divergent & diverse thinking produces magic in the form of rice fields
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: H.Koppdelaney My good friend Dolly Hopkins passed the following blog post onto me about these incredible rice fields in Japan. Beyond stunning, they are a testament to diverse & divergent ways of thinking. The incredible attention to detail is a gift from the Carrot Life Lenses™. The patience, reflection […]
Tags: divergent thinking, diversity
What lumps & bumps are under your pillow? Their source may surprise you
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture, Humor & comedy
This video made me laugh out loud. (Take a minute to watch it & then report back.) What are the lumps & bumps under your pillow? aka what are the things that are flying slightly under your radar? Here’s the view of a bumpy bed from four of the 8 Life Lens™ perspectives. From a […]
Tags: humour, life lenses, perspective
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens …” (Walt Whitman)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
“This is the city and I am one of the citizens, whatever interests the rest interests me.” This is a line from Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself. It caught my attention for the worldview it includes. If only we were all so curious and interested in ‘other’, in wrapping difference into our own. I’m not […]
Tags: diversity, perspective, walt witman, world view
Charlie’s Chocolate Factory – finding a neighbour 14,354 km away
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
The strangest coincidences happen when you’re far, far from home. Like when I was on safari recently in Kenya and met THE Charlie of Charlie’s Chocolate Factory. Charlie is somewhat of a local legend & meeting him & his wife in person was a sweet treat (pun intended). Charlie’s Chocolate Factory is a family-owned and […]
Tags: culture, difference, kenya, similarity
Value is defined by the user (a la Dave Ulrich)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
I adore this picture, another from Dave Ulrich’s excellent presentation ‘Leadership and Human Resources: Trends for the future’ at the Regional Leadership and HR Convention, Institute of Human Resource Management, Nairobi last year. What do you see? A wizened old woman? An old man with decades of stories to tell? A lithe young woman? A […]
Tags: communication, dave ulrich, Human resources
Which way does your watch hand point? For a novel perspective on time, how about uphill
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation, Diversity & culture
My good friend & colleague Melanda Schmid sent me a fascinating article about how time, for a tribe from Papua New Guinea, flows uphill. Yes, that’s uphill. Once thought to be universal, this “embodied cognition of time” is in fact strictly cultural. Over the past decade, encounters with various remote tribal societies have revealed a […]
Tags: culture, perspective, time