Studying entrepreneurship without doing it ….
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Change management & wellness
Studying entrepreneurship without doing it …is like studying the appreciation of music without listening to it, says Seth Godin. The cost of setting up a lemonade stand (or whatever metaphorical equivalent you dream up) is almost 100% internal. Until you confront the fear and discomfort of being in the world and saying, “here, I made […]
Tags: entrepreneurship, perspective, seth godin
Training & development learning well May blog post round up
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, 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 May. 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: allie brosh, communication, curiousity, google, Human resources, hyperbole and a half, ihrm, learning, pain, sara bakata, seth godin, social media, sunday nation
Insatiable – the good, the bad, the ugly (a la Seth Godin)
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Creative Commons licensed on Flickr by: kevin dooley Seth Godin wrote an interesting post called insatiable (see below). As his posts often do, it got me thinking. I think he got it wrong. Yes, insatiability can lead to all things nasty if it means a never ending dissatisfaction &/or an unquenchable greed. But what if […]
Tags: curiousity, learning, seth godin
‘What makes you weird?’ asks Seth Godin
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Creativity & innovation
Seth Godin wrote the following post called Destabilizing the bullying power structure. Love it. Wanted to share it with you. Come take a turn & celebrate yours & others’ weirdness & take a pass at bullying in the meantime. Bullies aren’t welcome. For every bully, there are a dozen or a hundred workers/kids/individuals that would […]
Tags: bullying, creativity, seth godin, weirdness
What can you do with the element of surprise?
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
Great pic from Larry Norman, which captures the importance of surprise. Seth Godin says attention is what’s most scarce. The element of surprise can capture attention. It’s a particularly god-sent element for training & development folk. Surprise a participant & you’ve got their attention (assuming it’s a pleasant, ah-ha surprise, not a ack, painful surprise). […]
Tags: larry norman, seth godin, surprise
Are you my drummer or am I your singer? Seth Godin on the Stones
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
I was struck by this post by Seth Godin. Are you my drummer or am I your singer? It’s all in the perspective. Notice how the perspective dramatically shifts…. Keith Richards tells a great story about Charlie Watts, legendary drummer for the Stones. After a night of drinking, Mick saw Charlie asleep and yelled, “Is […]
Tags: charlie watts, keith richardson, rolling stones, seth godin
Train the trainer – training & development wise words from Seth Godin
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Training & development
How dare you waste the revolution! says Seth Godin, who is nothing if not evocative and provocative. At a recent event he gave in Seattle I tuned into his thoughts on forward motion. It’s not about finding the right answer, we need to keep moving forward for how to ‘be’ in this revolution, this wave […]
Tags: attention, change management, commodification of education, effecting change, little miss matched, opportunity, revolution, seth godin, train the trainer, training skills
Seth Godin on amateurs, professionals & the great unwashed
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Human resources, Training & development
Seth wrote a post with the above title. He recommends you hire professionals or amateurs and not the bulk, who are in between. Professionals he defines as: those who cost big bucks but are worth more, those who show up … regardless, those who have integrity and stand up and those whose learning curve is […]
Tags: amateur, business, learning & development, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, marketing, professional, seth godin, training & development
Because Laughing Matters
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Human resources, Humor & comedy
I’m teaching a workshop on Friday called ‘Because Laughing Matters‘ at the Every Woman conference in Whistler, British Columbia. This is a topic dear to my heart. And if it’s not dear to your heart it should be because: humour is strategic, it primes the brain for learning – when we’re laughing we’re using the […]
Tags: chuck hamilton, creativity & innovation, Daniel Pink, every woman, Ford, humor, Humor & comedy, IBM, laugh, laughing matters, learning, lizard brain, seth godin, whistler, Whole New Mind
How to make a fan out of a fan; creative marketing ideas
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, Communication, Travel
Imagine being in 28 degrees Celsius / 82 degrees Fahrenheit weather and it’s only 8 am. Your shirt is already sticking to your back and you can feel the sweat sliding down your spine like some amusement park ride gone wild. As you make your way to the first day of a business conference you […]
Tags: brazil, learning, marketing, permission marketing, rio de janeiro, seth godin, ship, united nations, world urban forum