They were more likely to provide their tacit knowledge over chat when I had shown a personal interest.

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If that’s not a kick in the mouth, I don’t know what is.

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One of the speaker at OD this week was Marshall Goldsmith, one of the Ken Blanchard guys (and, he said, the father of Kelly from Survivor Africa, a show I must have missed). I had meant to go to another session, but I was talking as is my wont and just decided to stay where [...]

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RE: David Cooperrider’s talk on Appreciative Inquiry at Linkage’s Organizational Summit 2003 in Chicago.
Some interesting things I took away from his very interesting talk:
Healthy patients (ones that would survive) had 2x as many positive images of the future as negative images. They weren’t all positive, just 2/3 positive in images of the future.
Unhealthy patients [...]

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Peter Block had a weird plenary talk this morning. Although let’s face it, this is the reason that I signed up for this conference in the first place.
He talked a lot about “having a conversation that we’ve never had before” in business. Our problem, he says, often stems from being stuck in the same conversation [...]

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Taking Risks: The Management of Uncertainty. Kenneth MacCrimmon & Donald Wehrung. Free Press, 1988.
Risk Taking: A Managerial Perspective. Zur Shapira. Russell Sage Foundation, 1997.
Shapira and MacCrimmon & Wehrung both talk about how we are basically risk averse. Most of the people that you think are going to be risk-averse, are. For example, older workers, [...]

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