Living the virtual life, large? Spending hours a day online can be more than watching the latest Gangnam Style video (though fun!). Over the past week, my online work has been a fortunate mix of client activities, virtual learning, monitoring the networks, participating in a community event, and more. Diverse participation in the virtual ecosystem […]
Cultural Gumbo: Collaboration on culturally-diverse teams
September 7, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Each day, week, month. I discover how much I still have to learn. After a recent workshop I gave on conflict management, to Canadian immigrants, at the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria, I’ve upped my belief that getting a grip on cultural differences matters a lot. And, it matters whenever, and wherever, you find yourself in […]
Managed Services: The evolution of legal services?
August 8, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Virtual. Managed Service. Value-based. These are things Axiom Law talk about and offer their clients. Its how they see themselves differentiated from the traditional law firm, as this schematic from their website shows: Futurist Ross Dawson (@rossdawson on Twitter) highlighted this profile of Axiom in Law Technology News on his weblog recently. Axiom Law is a global […]
The Artist's Market: A lesson in marketing
July 24, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Last Saturday, I joined tens of thousands of others to walk the length of Moss St. in Victoria, to check out the work of over 150 invited professional and emerging artists. The event is called a “Paint-In”. I call it an Artist’s Market. The Moss St. Paint-In is in its 25th year. The Art Gallery […]
Co-facilitation is a value creation opportunity
July 16, 2012 by · 2 Comments
Sometimes you just have to give up something to get something. Case in point: collaboration. We give up a bit of personal autonomy for an outcome that’s greater than what we might have achieved on our own. Bottom line is that we and the customer/client both get more value. I’ve been formally working as a […]
