- Aligning my vision and your expectation
- Improve your visibility – gain more support
- My learning doesn’t stop
- Technology can hide us from social reality, or help connect us to it.
- Usability from the Inside Out
- “Marketing” is not a dirty word.
- OARS = Opportunities ⁃ Accomplishments ⁃ Risk factors ⁃ Surprises
- Coach, Consultant, or Contractor? Finding and using the helpers you need
- Why aren’t donors staying with your nonprofit?
- On choosing a professional partnership
- Tell me a story, about …
- Asking the right questions is a key to successful donor engagement
- When the board is not fulfilling its mission . . .
- Twelve scripts — Which will you play?
- Giving Form to a New Organization
- They just lost an eager customer
- Exploring Secular Sense of the Meeting
- “Hurry up and finish speaking, so I can tell you why you’re wrong!” (Guidelines for listening)
- Organizational styles — In process!
- What’s the real problem?
- Centering
- Assessing web site usability
- Workshop design: Crucial Questions
- What makes a great story?
- The everyday tasks of leadership
- My best mistake (!)
- Some answers, from a guy who asks lots of questions!
- Ten Traits of a Great Consultant + Eight More
- Telling my story . . .
- It’s all about Spirit
- Opening ourselves (and others) to change
- Art, Courage, and Risk — by Donna McNeil
- Making big mistakes
- Some questions for a nonprofit board to consider (even before you hire a consultant)
- On growing a small business — Critical questions that should help you find clarity
- On working with consultants
- Business “clinic” event
- Gift certificate shopping spree
- ‘User Interface Review’ service – news release
- A fractured society is our responsibility
- A new networking tool — professional bingo!
- On Becoming a Consultant
- Executive Scavenger Hunt
- On choosing a consultant
- On Elevator Speeches
- On being a consultant
- An Ugly American Story (sorry)
- Workshops in search of a date, time, and place
- The best time to win customer loyalty is when you make a mistake
- On crafting a vision statement
- On Turning the Computer Off
- Six skills we all need, or are there more?
- Listening to Users / Designing Usable Systems
- Dance! (about my dance photography)
- Not all money is green
- Management requires creative agility!
- States of Creativity
- Exceptional Leaders
- What makes a great question?
- Dealing with fear
- Some recent dance images
- A holiday greeting for all
- A heartwarming legend about friendship and gratitude
- Twitter is not Trivial
- Can creativity be taught?
- Coaching journal: Walking backwards into change
- Hug trees, but hug old buildings as well
- Process and paradigm — Where are we stuck?
- About forgiveness (from Sylvia Brallier)
- A belated Thanksgiving parable
- Dancing with horses – The Equus Projects
- From material scarcity to social abundance
- Listening with love
- Not a hoax, and a great Thanksgiving story
- How art acquires value
- The design was simpler than we ever imagined
- About creativity
- Coaching (or clarifying) is about strength and success
- Worth points, or how we add value to our clients
- What a lot of things there are to learn (from T.H. White)
- Back from Holland — with more than a few pictures!
- A peaceful affirmation (from Heron Dance)
- Designers don’t follow trends
- Off to Holland on Wednesday Nov 11
- Judge computer systems by usability
- Response to: “Even Pacifists Benefit From War”
- Sadness . . . that Maine’s same gender marriage law was overthrown, and about how this was done
- You can still worry later, even if you are not worrying now
- The worst advice I ever received (about “mistakes”)
- About ‘Public Relations’
- Birthing is a dance
- A “coaching” (or “clarifying”) breakthrough
- Photography as a Spiritual Practice
- The Book of Tea
- On becoming a dance photographer (part 1)
- Look before you photograph . . . look carefully
- How do you add value to your clients?
- A few images from the 5×5 Dance Festival – Friday night
- Do we believe that the brown pot is decaf?
- Dance!
- Database Anesthesiologist, or Database Psychiatrist?
- Uups! I forget this was “user centered design”!
- Paycheck and “Personal paycheck”: What employees want and what they get
- What business are you in; What are the goals?
- Read Adam Gopnik’s “Postscript” on photographer Irving Penn
- Images from the Bates Dance Festival 2008
- Dreaming: An effortless conversion to Gui
- Resiliency theory: Empowering my “coaching” clients
- White noise, sugar candy, or …? I’m listening.
- You’ve been reading an advertisement
- Putting Computers In Their Place
- Truth-telling (or not)
- The role of type is to be read (simplicity #2)
- A plea for simplicity … in all things
- These signs sure confused me!
- The best time to win customer loyalty is when you make a mistake
- Fear of change: Pain, perseverance, and gain
- Shameless self-promotion?
- Great Values on Luxury Essentials
- Images from Bates Dance Festival 2009
- An interface re-design story
- Why Design Matters
- Responding to difficult feedback
- Learning photography from my “blind” companion
- Photography as a Spiritual Practice
- Icons that don’t work (at least for me)
- ‘Envision’ tool, ‘Remember’ tool, and the ‘Archival Trash Can’
- Choosing how we spend our time
- On same gender marriage
- Learning how others see one’s work
- The elevator speech — My value proposition
- Not your usual wedding assignment
- Deborah Cash on dance photography
- What makes a great question?
- The energy of dance
- Listening to users — and hearing their words
- A lesson from Ernst Haas
- Corporate Anthropology (or what are your employees really doing?)
- Listen loudly
- On bringing books into Meeting for Worship
- About Obama’s Philadelphia speech (on race)
- Users keep me honest
- In Defense of Difficult Art
- On Centering
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Recent Posts
- Aligning my vision and your expectation
- Improve your visibility – gain more support
- My learning doesn’t stop
- Technology can hide us from social reality, or help connect us to it.
- Usability from the Inside Out
- “Marketing” is not a dirty word.
- OARS = Opportunities ⁃ Accomplishments ⁃ Risk factors ⁃ Surprises
- Coach, Consultant, or Contractor? Finding and using the helpers you need
- Why aren’t donors staying with your nonprofit?
- On choosing a professional partnership
- Tell me a story, about …
- Asking the right questions is a key to successful donor engagement
- When the board is not fulfilling its mission . . .
- Twelve scripts — Which will you play?
- Giving Form to a New Organization
