An archeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
An archeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins ~ anonymous
Love this twist on perspective. It’s clever. It’s humourous. It points out, quite simply, how perspective can dramatically change the picture.
~~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: career, change, perspsective
A far reaching, thought provoking insight into why we still need feminism
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Conflict resolution, Diversity & culture
You may have noticed that when you Google something, Google tries to lend a hand. She’ll give you some options, filling in your search for you, to see if one of them is actually what you’re looking for.
Of course Google’s suggestions are based on actual searches. That is, Google remembers what people look for & feeds it back to you, in case you’re looking for the same thing.
This clever picture, shows how Google fills in your search if you type in ‘Women should…’ or ‘Women want to be…’ or ‘Women shouldn’t.’
It’s a far reaching, thought provoking insight into perspective. And why we still need feminism.
~~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: feminism, google, perspective
Prudish. Flirty. Whore. Proper. Cheeky. Slut. – displayed in a stark photo
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Diversity & culture
‘Prudish. Flirty. Whore. Proper. Cheeky. Slut. These are just a few of the words that could be used to describe a woman’s sexual behavior based on her appearance alone, and 18-year-old college freshman Rosea Lake chose to display them starkly — on a young woman’s legs in a photo that has since gone viral.’
The above quote is from a Huffington post article.
Fabulous. Stark. Mind opening. Example. Of. Perspective. Busting.
The view changes drastically & dramatically depending on your perspective.
~~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: gender, huffington post, perspective, rosea lake
When hackers & farmers join forces – creating jacuzzis from abandoned water troughs & other hacker delights
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Photo Credit: Unhindered by Talent via Compfight cc
Check out some pretty spiffy uses of technology – bringing hackers together with farmers.
Hackerspaces [are] user-friendly spaces where technological tools are crafted, are spreading throughout the rural environment. They can even transform abandoned water troughs into eco-jacuzzis.
“If we take a look at the etymology of the word ‘hacker’, it refers to hacking wood”, comments Ursula Gastfall. A … main goal was the development and democratisation of technological know-how in a rural setting.
Certain hackerlands arise as an alternative to these structures, turning into local, non-profit consultants of sorts. They meet some of the rural area’s needs – particularly digital de-isolation – by creating independent Internet networks that work in mountainous or isolated areas, setting up local, democratic servers, regional Internet radios, etc.
In Pado [Italy], there is no water or electricity. Festival-goers put together a rain-water collection system that filtered the water before consumption, and set up solar panels – wired to batteries – to supply the electricity to the electronic equipment used for the event. On the event’s program: building wind turbines, solar ovens and 3D printers, making free software and doing research on fermentation, as well as concerts and lighting and analog photography laboratories…all of this, right in the heart of the Alpine mountains.
Edited interview with Philippe Langlois, one of the founding members of the first French hackerspace on RealitySandwich.
Tags: hacker, realitysandwich, technology
How to tail a rhino (or the view from a rhino’s butt)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Creativity & innovation
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‘The secret to sneaking up on a 3,000-pound black rhino, should you ever need to know, is to walk in its footsteps. Literally. Rhinos, it tuns out, have incredible sharp hearing – and the best way to avoid any crackling or crunching during your approach is to step inside our hefty target’s tracks, where the twigs, and leaves are already as flattened as they’re going to get.’ (source: Globe & Mail)
It’s also a great way to gain perspective & enhance your view. As the old saying goes, walk in someone else’s shoes (or in this case footprints). See where they’ve trodden, examine what things look like from their viewpoint.
For who knows, the view of a rhino’s butt could be pretty interesting.
~~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: communication, perspective, rhino
One incredibly cool & creative recruitment method
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Photo Credit: Nina Matthews Photography via Compfight cc
There is a music school in Frankfurt, Germany called the University of Hannover Academy of Music.
It is an elite school for musicians.
Hannover wanted to recruit specific people: Those with “perfect pitch.”
If you have perfect pitch, it means you can identify a specific musical note without any other external assistance or context.
If you think that’s easy, try it now: Sing an “A” off the top of your head.
Only one in 10,000 of us can do that.
In Europe and North America, some studies suggest that less than 3% of the population can do it. Yet, 98% have absolute colour recognition.
That’s how rare Perfect Pitch is.
So the University of Hannover’s Music Department wanted to recruit people with perfect pitch.
But how could they do that on radio?
By doing this:
Seriously cool huh?! How’s that for an incredibly creative recruitment method.
Source: one of my all time favourite podcasts, Under the Influence
Tags: cbc, creativity, podcast, under the influence
Life Begins at the End of Your Comfort Zone – Neale Donald Walsch
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness
What a mantra for a Go Life Lens™.
Explore. Experiment. Search. Seek.
~~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: change, neale donald walsch
The importance of backing up or how not to avoid tears of a 4 year old while not pissing of Uncle Dave
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Humor & comedy, Training & development
This poor little 4 year old learns about deleting beloved photo of Uncle Dave (see video clip below).
I’m about to start teaching a new Social Media course for UNON here in Nairobi. I’m soooo looking forward to sharing new tips, tools & techniques for using Social Media to learn, research, ‘listen,’ get organized, find ease & efficiency & more.
One of the things we’ll be talking about is how to use Social Media to make finding (& keeping) information easier. I rely heavily on Delicious to keep my online resources organized & sorted. I use Mozy to back up to the cloud automatically.
What are some of the tools you use?
Tags: delicious, mozy, social media, unon
Is it equal or is it equitable? There’s a big difference.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Diversity & culture
A colleague from the UN gave me this cartoon. Whether I’m doing train the trainer training, talking about stages of group development or intercultural conflict resolution training, the difference between equality and equity comes up.
Many people see them as the same thing (pun intended).
They’re not.
Equality is treating everyone the same. Equity is treating people fairly.
Big difference.
If we recognize that people hold different perspectives, different world views, & we act on that premise, it’s a start towards equity.
How does this play out in your work?
~~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: diversity, equality, equity, life lenses, worldview
Enjoy these amazingly creative ads.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Enjoy these amazingly creative ads. Think about their use of humour, turning ordinary objects inside out, grabbing your attention …
Think about how they turn the ordinary into something unusual (french fries as wifi anyone?).
Think about their use of humour & anticipation (what would happen if the hedgehog moved forward or back?).
Think about their use of surprise & humour (how NOT to get ants attracted to something sweet).
Think about their use of exaggeration to make a point (‘hiiiii yaaaa’ she yells, while cutting not only the carrot but the board as well).
Think about their use of shock value, making something very dispparate the same & yet not (likening Charlie Chan to Hitler).
Think about creatively turning the ordinary (a fork) into something un-ordinary (a hard rock salute).
Tags: creativity, humour, innovation