The Bad Thing Your Brain Might Do When You Meet Someone New

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

When you first glimpse someone (or something) new your brain reacts instantly, but you knew that. What’s destructive is that when you instinctively feel danger – or simply irritation –  you respond quicker, longer and more intensely than if you feel safe or another positive emotion.

Your negative reaction to “the new” affects you much more than a [...]

We Do Better Together – Books That Show Us How

Saturday, November 15th, 2008

I started this blog soon after The Age of Engagement morphed into a flood of 

ideas on how “we” can accomplish more together. Here are the books I’ve mentioned and authors I have interviewed. Crowdsourcing (Jeff Howe), Here Comes Everybody Clay  Shirky), groundswell (Charlene

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How Many Personalities Are Inside You?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

That irritating co-worker you’re stuck sitting by (again!) sees a decidedly different side of you than your best friend does. That’s because you have many people inside of you (no they’re not imaginary). That’s what veteran science writer, Rita Carter discovered as she began reading about bi-polar personalities for Mapping the Mind. Emerging [...]

 
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3D Breakthrough Changes How We Meet, Share, Buy & Play

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

He was in Bangalore and his co-presenters were in San Jose, yet Cisco’s CEO appeared live – on the same stage. How? By using a breathtaking 3D holographic-like technology. They tout it as, “the world’s first real time virtual presentation. Aptly, it’s called TelePresence.
See Sir Richard Branson – live at a London press conference, [...]

Make Your Meeting or Product Come Alive in Images

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Like to literally see a story unfold? Want to make your complex product or idea simple to understand? Yearn to make your next meeting more memorable – and enable more people to experience it? Here are three vivid approaches offered by the masters of their visual genres.
1. Animating Your [...]

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