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File this one under weird obsessions: People who collect vintage motel postcards. Pictured here: Kirby's Motel in Rochester, N.Y., circa 1970s, from ...
There's an excellent manifesto on ChangeThis about teambuilding. Called True Teambuilding: More than a Recreational Retreat, it offers the CARB (Commitment to the team and each other; Alignment and goal agreement; Relationships among team members...
Colin Rorrie, Jr., PhD, CAE, recently e-mailed members of Meeting Professionals International to say that he'll be stepping down as president and CEO as of this week. Mark Andrew, chairman-elect, will take a leave of absence from his job as...
Guy Kawasaki hits it out of the ballpark again, this time with a post called How to Be a Great Moderator. Anyone who moderates a panel should memorize these tips and, more importantly, follow them. My favorite...
This is great--The TED Commandments (scroll down to the Feb. 20 entry to see what I'm talking about). This is how the TED Conference sent its speakers guidelines. Did I mention that this is great? ...
This could be pretty dire, if it comes true. According to an article in the New York Daily News, the national Unite Here labor union is urging its locals to strike specifically negotiate separately with Hilton properties this summer as part of its...
I love that term, "seminared," for that heady rush you get when you come back from a conference all stuffed with great ideas that will change everything for the better. Kathi Edwards has a couple of posts (here and here) on the ASAE Great Ideas...
We recently received a fairly blistering e-mail blasting us for the relatively low response rate to this year's Annual Physician's Survey in Medical Meetings' January issue. Actually, we thought 16.6 percent was pretty good—of course, more would...