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Pecha Kucha Squared = #WOLyo!

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Last week, I presented 10 (count ‘em!) pecha kucha, every day at 1130 and 1330. Topics ranged from my (fairly uneducated) take on Microsoft Office/Oslo roadmap and shipping finance for beginners, to perspectives on the company and the CEO, and then more meta content about working out loud and the value and practice of pecha kucha itself. At the end of the pecha kucha on pecha kucha, I suggested it as a good option for people to practice their presentation craft, and finished with a Challenge Accepted image. Someone asked, does this mean you want us to ‘pecha kucha’? Well, no … Continue reading Pecha Kucha Squared = #WOLyo!

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What Does #WorkOutLoud Leadership Look Like? #WOLyo!

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I like sceptics. I am not one generally. Used to be. Used to be a harrumphing bore, cynical to the gills. Got over it, myself. Now, I think much more about potential and what if…? Still, sceptics keep you grounded, prevent some of the plain excess of grandiloquent ideas. I encourage the engagement of sceptics, they make me better, raise the bar. And they come out of the woodwork when they smell the fresh scent of new ideas, innovation, change. This week, working out loud under the stairs, I have had several good, honest, hardworking conversations on matters of substance. … Continue reading What Does #WorkOutLoud Leadership Look Like? #WOLyo!

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Still Working, Still Loud. #WorkOutLoud Day 3 #WOLyo!

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I am experimenting working out loud quite physically. I moved my desk to be under the stairs with a sofa and a projector for company. I am hosting pecha kucha unEvents, chats about business topics, introducing some stim and some tension, seeing what happens, without expectation or longing. I keep returning to this idea of asking: How can I help? The social journey is a shared one, meandering and bumpy, but every time you ask that question, the flow returns. Every time. Am I to help 150 people in the office? No. Can I make a difference to a handful, … Continue reading Still Working, Still Loud. #WorkOutLoud Day 3 #WOLyo!

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#WorkOutLoud Week: Day 2 #WOLyo! The Place That Adults Whisper About And Children Cross The Street To Avoid

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So, word reaches me, working out loud (#WOLyo!) under the stairs at work, from two separate sources within minutes of each other – surely a meaning to this then – that Wes Craven has been here years before me, in the 1991 movie The People Under The Stairs. According to IMDb, “Two adults and a juvenile burglar break into a house occupied by a brother and sister and their stolen children and can’t escape.” Well, here I am, and there are escape routes left and right, but I’m hanging in there. Day one was very tiring because the spot light … Continue reading #WorkOutLoud Week: Day 2 #WOLyo! The Place That Adults Whisper About And Children Cross The Street To Avoid

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Living Under The Stairs, Working Out Loud #WOLyo! Day 1 Review

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I would be lying if I said I knew it would work. I had little idea on how people would participate, if at all. #WOLyo! is an attempt to engage with the network in a different, direct way. It is guerilla work, asking for no permission, creating tension in the corridors (quite literally) of power, stopping people in the their tracks (hopefully). It takes bravery to participate, because it is unexpected and there are no rules of engagement. If I show up, will I be put on the spot? Will I understand what is going on? Will I know the … Continue reading Living Under The Stairs, Working Out Loud #WOLyo! Day 1 Review

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It’s Time To #WOLyo!

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Here is my current applied learning process: I connect with those who are further ahead, some who are behind or abreast but who are seekers also; I watch, listen, read. I let the knowledge wash over me. I pause for thought. I create space for insight at several points through the day. I reach out, respond, enter the flow, deepen my awareness. I articulate my own connected thoughts on my blog, for my own challenge first. I work out loud. As ideas eddy and still and amplify, I bring new learning to work (day job). I share new ideas, new … Continue reading It’s Time To #WOLyo!

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The Search For More

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Ever since I started using Yammer more than three years ago, I have had a new found appreciation for the power of the network. Previously, I hugged close my knowledge and kept tight my network of trust. No longer. I have nothing to hide any more. Share is the new Save, I wrote a year ago, and I have been spending huge amounts of my free time unlearning and relearning how to scale EVERYTHING accordingly. I have moved my primary learning environment from the yammer customer network – thousands of like-minded seekers of organizational scaling – to the Change Agents … Continue reading The Search For More

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The Future Of Work Is Not ‘Jobless’ – It Is ‘Jobfull’

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Yesterday’s post about how networks support getting work done was reformatted from a post I did inside a walled garden ESN last year. It stirred up a few reflections from my network colleagues, and inspired today’s post. As mundane work is increasingly outsourced and automated, it does NOT mean the future of work is ‘jobless’ – au contraire, it is ‘jobfull’. Most knowledge workers will have (to have) multiple concurrent gigs. We will have to specialise further as the generic skills get automated and outsourced. Anyone sitting still and not upskilling iteratively and constantly will be lucky to survive. In … Continue reading The Future Of Work Is Not ‘Jobless’ – It Is ‘Jobfull’

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I Am The Next Middle Class, And I Need Your Support.

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For me, fellow Change Agent Harold Jarche triggers more deep thinking than any other blogger; and this post is no exception – getting larger and more menacing every day is the looming shadow of realisation that the future ain’t what it used to be! All knowledge workers are under threat – from information overload and big data, from automation and outsourcing. The futurist Ross Dawson says: “…in a connected world, unless your skills are world-class, you are a commodity.” The only way out? Expertise, Relationships, and Innovation. Welcome to the network. From Jarche: “We are seeing experiments in new forms … Continue reading I Am The Next Middle Class, And I Need Your Support.

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The 10 Things I Learned About Social Business From 20 Strangers Kissing

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You may have already seen the video doing the viral rounds of 20 strangers kissing. It is recommended viewing, and not just because the marketer in me knows a good meme when he sees one. (and ok, it ends up that it was done for a fashion shoot, but that is besides the point…) It is an incredibly touching video, both for the viewer, invited into an intimacy, and for the participants who are shown in their gawky, honest humility. The word that rested lightly atop it all throughout was TRUST. With no back story or commonality with each other, … Continue reading The 10 Things I Learned About Social Business From 20 Strangers Kissing

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Why do We Need New Presentation Approaches? Because No-one Is Listening

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Everyone hates PowerPoint (notwithstanding all the PPT consultants who proclaim is has cooler transitions and widgets than people know). It doesn’t matter what PPT does. What matters is that we don’t like the outcome – the engorged dataset, the monotonous word-for-word reading of the presenter, the preference for data over learning / take-aways. We are inured to the build and rebuild of PPTs, taking last period’s content and updating it with NEW shiny content. What we want from presentations are memories, when our internal hard drive is bombarded with increasing amounts of data and we outsource everything to google. We … Continue reading Why do We Need New Presentation Approaches? Because No-one Is Listening

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Look Up! The Ceiling Is An Everywhere Metaphor For Insight.

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Yesterday, I wrote about the value of staring at the ceiling. Today, a semi-cogent example of how others are doing it and prospering by it and bringing us with them. Jay Baer asked recently, did we just invent a new form of blogging? He was referring to the trend for SlideShare presentations of images and short form sentences / questions / reflections. No. But this is great #foodforthought. Did We Just Invent A New Form of Blogging? http://t.co/nhLnSRYDzX via @jaybaer — Jonathan Anthony (@ThisMuchWeKnow) February 25, 2014   I had an example of this new type of content on my … Continue reading Look Up! The Ceiling Is An Everywhere Metaphor For Insight.