Regularly I recharge my change driving batteries by sampling the delightful links my friends send me.
As I prepared for the long holiday weekend–Happy 4th of July by the way!–I thought, “Why not offer up some link fuel for my Engine for Change friends?” Enjoy!
Charles Green reveals the silly secrets of strategy in You Too Can Be a Strategy Consultant. Don’t get fooled by a strategy hack again. [Nancy – Thanks for the link.]
Rogue Polymath has been busy clarifying our minds with several Thinking Thursday posts. Enjoy Murphy’s Law, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Edward Tufte – Supergraphic and Abilene Paradox.
RSA Animate offers an excellent 10 minute video illustration of Daniel Pink‘s Drive.
If you can’t avoid using PowerPoint slides in your work Seth Godin offers his 200 Slide Solution, Toastmasters International’s magazine introduces us to Pecha Kucha in What is Pecha Kucha? and Captain Joe Bradley would tell you to improve your presentation using an Assertion and Evidence format (see my old professor Michael Alley’s Rethinking the Design of Presentation Slides). If you want to be great at presentations, PowerPoint or not, buy Tufte’s The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within. The booklet is only $7 and reading it will change the way you produce and absorb all PowerPoint presentations.
Well, I feel recharged. Do you?
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