13/05/2009
It constantly amazes me how few people take notes during a conference. Time and time again I sit or stand in rooms with some of Australia's best speakers presenting to see people sit there and not take notes. Organisations and individuals pay a lot of money to hear speakers and/or each other speak. Venues, food, wages, speakers fees and audio visual equipment are all expenses that are being borne by you and/or your company. That aside, your most precious asset is your time and you are willingly giving that to be in a room to hear someone speak. So why wouldn't you take notes? The Institute of Accelerated Learning states that only 1 in 10 people actually learn or process new information simply by hearing it. So why is it that people sit there eagerly shaking their head, agreeing with what you're saying and supposedly learning something, yet they write nothing down?
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05/05/2009
Just a reminder that the Melbourne Leadership Breakfast is being held on 21st May 2009 in Melbourne. The event will be hosted by David Parkin and all proceeds from the event will go directly to the Tour de Cure cycling foundation to assist in its efforts to raise money to cure Cancer.
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01/05/2009
Rodney was an attendee in an audience at a speech I was giving in Toowoomba in Queensland. He was a member of the TASC Inc. During my speech we were discussing the rituals which are the downtime that people create in their schedules to allocate to creative thinking, pondering and dreaming. I talked through my theories behind rituals and then threw it to the audience. Rodney said that his ritual was when he wheeled. He said when he's in his wheelchair he'll go out and wheel around the car park or around the office, and while he's out doing that is his creative thinking time.
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27/04/2009
Recently I delivered a keynote in Adelaide around Leading Innovation. My challenge to the group was to consider the last time they did something quite unexpected for their customers or clients. When did they truly astound or surprise their customers or clients with something to do with their product or service?
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24/04/2009
On 6th May I will be releasing the first issue of the world's first newspaper for those people who think differently. The Espresso is not for everyone. It's for those who challenge status quo, hate to sit still with the same old same old thinking, and want to find new and better ways to improve every part of their world. The Espresso is dedicated to the mavericks. Its for those restless people who like to go against the grain.
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