An easy decision after all
Phil Culhane
pculhane at magma.ca
Tue Aug 24 16:40:16 PDT 2004
Thanks to all who responded to my quandary yesterday evening - easily a half dozen
through the list or directly. Curiously enough, this event was going to be different
regardless.
I'm currently one small cog in a large corporate wheel, which means that when I need a
printer, the lads in IT point to a desk and say "there's six - take one". They are
excellent, and usually all of the hardware is ready, with all cords, cables, etc. Well! I
just finished setting up the room, and printed off the first page (the list of attendees,
for them to modify to correct contact info)...and the printer's almost out of ink! Had
this been any other OS, I'd be running around Toronto right now trying to find an ink
cartridge for a six year old printer, or more likely, buying a new one! However, given
the past 24 hours' tips and tricks...no worries. I will offer the participants to
document their discussions as they wish - using the templates I offer and/or flip charts
and/or blank paper, as it suits their needs. Whatever they give to me, I will post for
all to read in the newsroom. At the end of the event, I'll take it all home, scan or
photograph whatever makes sense to, transcribe the rest, and present a book of
proceedings to the host.
Also curiously, three attendees had to drop out at the last moment (today); all emailed
to ask me to send them proceedings...so I guess I was going to do a book of proceedings
tomorrow, just I needed to learn a new way.
Thank you all for the new knowledge.
Two little tidbits from my day:
1) I use painter's tape to tape the laws, AGENDA, NEWS, etc. to the wall. The tape is
green. On some of the pages I taped up, I ran two strips top and bottom. On others, I
boxed the page in - tape on all four sides. I stood back and looked at the room, and the
boxed in ones just didn't feel right - so I retaped them (thanks to painter's tape) with
two strips, top and bottom - and they look more open. Not a major point, but just an
interesting tidbit about creating the space.
2) I got on the elevator with three golfers from Colorado, USA (note, I'm in Canada). One
said to the other two, "You know what surprises me the most? They drive on the same side
of the road we do!" That was my chuckle for the day. Boy, it would make all those
international bridges between our two countries darned tricky if you had to switch sides
halfway across.
Best wishes to all.
Phil Culhane
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>From Wed Aug 25 09:42:00 2004
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:42:00 +0100
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From: Martin Leith <martin at martinleith.com>
Subject: Jake Jacobs & his co-authors request your help!
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News and a request ...Greetings from Bristol, in the west of England.
Jake Jacobs, author of the book Real Time Strategic Change, and Julie
Beedon, an RSTC and Open Space colleague here in the UK, have asked me to
spread the word about the new book they've written with Dick and Emily
Axelrod (developers of The Conference Model). It's called "You Don't Have To
Do It Alone - How to Involve Others to Get Things Done" and from what Julie
has told me it sounds like a wonderful contribution to the literature on
collaboration and participation.
Are you ready a bit of participation yourself? I do hope so, because if
enough of us go to www.FastCompany.com/bookclub and register our vote, the
book will be declared Fast Company magazine's Book of the Month. This will
be very gratifying for Jake, Julie, Emiliy and Dick, who have worked very
hard to bring the book into being.
Voting closes on August 31 (that's Tuesday of next week), so it would be
great if you'd take a moment now to place your vote at
www.FastCompany.com/bookclub. If you need more information, Jake's original
request is copied below.
The book is published by Berrett-Koehler, the same company that publishes
Harrison Owen's books.
I do hope you can spare a minute to help Jake, Julie, Emiliy and Dick.
With warm thanks and good wishes,
Martin
Martin Leith
www.collaborationcentre.com
www.martinleith.com
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Hi Colleagues & Friends,
I have a favor to ask of you. It will take 30 seconds of your time (I
promise).
After many years, and a lot of trials and tribulations, we (Dick and Emily
Axelrod, Julie Beedon and Jake Jacobs) have finished our book, "You Don't
Have To Do It Alone" .
Now we need your help to launch it with a bang!
It is one of five nominees for the book of the month club in Fast Company
Magazine. In order to win, we need your vote. So please go to
www.FastCompany.com/bookclub and simply click on the VOTE button next to
our book. We know you haven't had chance to read it yet and we hope the
summary provided on that site might be enough to encourage you to cast a
vote for it.
The voting starts on August 15th and lasts until the end of the month. To
make sure your vote counts, please use your home email account (only one
vote is allowed per company URL).
If you are really game for involvement in our efforts to spread the word
please pass this email on and ask a friend or two to do the same, thereby
extending our "sneeze" campaign.
Thank you again for helping us with this book launch. Let us know what we
can do for you in return. Really!
On behalf of the writing team,
Robert "Jake" Jacobs
P.S. We'll let you know soon if it wins book of the month.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ARE YOU M.A.D.?! Berrett-Koehler Publishers is sponsoring an exciting,
one-day conference, "POSITIVELY M.A.D." (Making A Difference) on Saturday,
November 6, 2004, in San Francisco. In addition to presentations by more
than 40 of Berrett-Koehler's top authors, the conference is designed to give
maximum opportunity for participants to connect with each other and the
speakers. We'll also be presenting the inaugural "POSITIVELY M.A.D."
Achievement Awards. To learn more about nominating someone for the
awards--and to register for the conference--please visit
<http://www.bkconnection.com>.
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Let us know what we can do for you in return. Really!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>On behalf of the writing team,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><FONT size=3D2></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Robert "Jake" Jacobs</FONT></DIV>
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the=20
speakers. We'll also be presenting the inaugural <B> =
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for the=20
awards--and to register for the conference--please visit</FONT><FONT=20
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