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What the Super Bowl blackout can teach us about navigating ambiguity
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50140297n Check the books, but I’d wager that no one bet on a blackout during the Super Bowl. What happens in a moment of complete ambiguity, where a scheduled...
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What’s the drill – February 22: Know your objective
”Whenever someone comes to me for help, I listen very hard and ask myself, ‘What does this person really want? And what will they do to keep from getting it?” – William Perry, Harvard Professor of...
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I Have a Great Idea – via Harvard Business Review
Bear with me for a couple hundred words, can you? I have a “great idea”. There is an HBR Article floating around that got me fired up. Really fired up. It was sent over by my friend Phil O’ Brien of...
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Why Our Brains are Hooked on Being Right – via HBR
I’m preparing for my “Summer O’ Conflict”, which basically means 5 weeks of Conflict Resolution training. Conflict is fascinating, but as someone who watches and coaches Improvisers I have to say that...
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The power of a “Power Pose”
How much space do you take up? No, we’re not talking about oxygen or your belongings. Literally, when you stand or sit, or enter a room, how much space do you take up and how do you convey that to...
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How to “Yes, And” by saying “No”
When I first started Improvising, I took the phrase “Yes, and” very literally. My mind was blown by this new concept and I wanted to play with the idea of saying YES to everything I could. And so… I...
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What’s the drill: May 3 – Back to the basics
Ah, just when you think you’ve become an Improvisation Jedi a challenge emerges to test your will, your word, and the ability to make the conscious unconscious. Enter, the group project. Time and time...
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On Michael Bay, and finding the problem before the solution
By now you’ve probably had your fill of social media posts about Michael Bay’s, shall we say, “issue” at CES last week. Allow me just one more viewpoint. In the days that followed the “issue”, many...
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The power of re-framing
Ask someone if they want to learn how to be an Improviser and you may not see too many hands get raised. It is down-right scary for many people and we can spend a lot of time de-bunking the myth of...
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