Working to repair the world, one sketchnote at a time
This is a reprint of a post I wrote for a company blog in 2016 A few months ago Pat Falotico (@patfalotico) from the Robert Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (@Greenleafcenter on Twitter) came to my company to give a talk on servant leadership using Robert Greenleaf’s book “The Servant as Leader” as the basis for discussion. […]
#1 There’s a classic joke about a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer. An engineer, a mathematician, and a physicist are staying for the night in a hotel. A small fire breaks out in each room. The mathematician awakes, sees the fire, makes some careful observations, and on a blackboard installed in the room, does some quick […]
We may use the whiteboard, PowerPoint, our words, or blogs instead of the traditional novel but the concept is the same. We have ideas and stories to share and we want people to listen and get some sort of value from them. In reality, we are all aspiring writers. Part memoir, Stephen King’s On Writing, is also a […]
I love the idea of teams creating something that represents their work, feelings, accomplishments, and challenges. It’s a great way to close the laptops, get everyone engaged, have some fun, and end up with cool and deep insights. Recently I came across a number of articles about using Rory Story Cubes in various ways in Sprint retrospectives. […]
When my daughter was learning to ride a bike I could only hold on to the back of the seat and tell her to pedal for so long before I had to let go. The first time I let go, she rode into a holly bush at the end of the driveway. I gave her […]