'Education' Category
Don’t Try to Change the World
(the following is the Graduation speech I intend to give one day, if I am ever deemed important or interesting enough to be asked to give one.)
“Welcome to the world.”
“New doors are opening for you.”
“Go make a difference in the world around you.”
Around the country, at this very moment, people like me are giving people [...]Making Pearls
In the last couple of years with the Red Cross, I have been involved in some of the strangest crisis communications challenges you can imagine. Notice, I didn’t say “most intense” or “most difficult” or even “most noteworthy.” In most of these cases, we’re talking about a local chapter and its relationship to [...]
Speed Kills
During one of my recent travels, I missed out on one of those magic parenting moments. My wife told me about it later, and it cracks me up.
My son had his toy dinosaurs all gathered together. The biggest one was laying on its side. Deceased. The others were huddled around, ready [...]Training
I’m in training today, and as much as I learn from being in a session, I learn even more from conducting one. Leading a class forces you to bone up on not just the immediate subject matter, but also the secondary pieces that might come up in conversation. When I want to learn [...]
Little Lessons
The last three weeks have been so extraordinary, I could write a book about the experience. But I won’t. Partially, because I am too lazy, partially because there isn’t enough time, partially because there is no audience, and mostly because so much of the information is privileged and it wouldn’t be right to [...]
