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Telegraph-Journal: Focus on strategy not execution
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Canadian Arts Summit, Montreal, April 2009
March 31st, 2009Canadian Arts Summit, Montreal
I had the privilege of returning to the Canadian Arts Summit for the second year in a row to speak to the leaders of Canada’s major Arts Organizations about technology, young people, and appreciating the arts. I love the arts, and am firmly committed to supporting them in anyway that I can.
I am involved with Business for the Arts, which has a great young professionals group called ArtScene. If you’re in Toronto or Calgary you should check it out. More chapters will be opening across Canada soon.
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World Economic Forum - The Global Partnership Project
March 31st, 2009The World Economic Forum: The Global Partnership Project
My project is called the Global Partnership Project and it’s really fascinating. In association with the governments of Qatar, Singapore, and Switzerland, the Forum is creating a global multi-stakeholder dialogue on a wider global cooperation system to deal with some of the world’s most complex challenges. The aim of the project is to examine ways to improve global governance from some of the world’s leading experts and thinkers.
My favorite part is that this project will uphold the Forum’s mandate to improve the state of the world, and I can’t wait to hear your feedback and comments as the project takes shape.
I’ll be tagging all Forum posts with “The Forum” tag.
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In Montreal and Toronto
March 31st, 2009It’s so good to be home for a little while! Here’s what I’m up to this week.
Tuesday - Unfinished Business Lectures: Karen Stephenson
BEYOND ORGANIZATION: DESIGNING FOR SUSTAINABLE CHANGE
The nature of organization lies in its barrier to entry: in how “membership” is defined. This is the raison d’être of organizational “culture”. This disheartening social fact is all the more lamentable in today’s globally interconnected world where our need to meaningfully integrate across disciplines, cultures and firms is more important than ever before. Historically, the prevailing wisdom was to let good ideas “bubble up”, but along with the economic myth of “trickle down” it is just and only that, MYTH! A counter these myths are the proven anthropological approaches that get to the heart of culture, using interviews and participant-observational techniques….all good, but still very time-consuming. What is needed is a new way to reliably accelerate an accurate diagnosis of an organization and intervene to produce predictable and sustainable (read: healthy) change.
For more information and to register, visit www.eventbrite.com/event/291382533
Wired Wednesday
I am going to Wired Wednesday to hear David Crow and Saul Colt speak about cool geeky things that make my heart go pitter patter. It’s free. It starts at 6. Details here.
Thursday - The Social, MySpace Canada, Toronto
This Thursday I will be the keynote at “The Social” MySpace Canada’s industry event. I will be talking about my new book Yes We Did which is being published in May 2009.
I will also be participating on a panel called “The Social Circle” which will be moderated by Nora Young of CBC Radio’s Spark and include:
- Yanick Bedard, Director of New Media, Sid Lee Montreal
- Dave Stevens, General Manager, MySpace Canada
- Dr. Boris Wertz, CEO of Nexopia and W Media Ventures
Friday - #Geeklunch
I will be organizing a #geeklunch this Friday April 3, 2009 in Toronto. It will probably be at the Bright Pearl since I have a major Dim Sum craving! If you are interested following the #geeklunch tag on Twitter for final details. This time I will bring my camera since I had so much fun at our last one!
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Update from Switzerland - Where did March go?!
March 22nd, 2009
I checked the calendar today and did a double take. Was it already March 22? How is that possible? Maybe time moves differently in the land of chocolate! I can’t believe my last post was on March 3rd. Much has happened in the last two weeks as I get settled into the routine of living in a new country. I acquired my very first Swiss souvenir: a mild concussion. That’s right, in a brilliant display of grace, balance and poise I took the mother of all spills outside of the Foreign Visa office, knocking myself out cold. I’ll let my travel blog update those of you who want more details, since I would like to keep this a place of Foushy business!
I spend my days learning about the World Economic Forum and sifting through the large volume of research they have done over the past year. It is a veritable treasure trove of data that tickles my information addiction. At night I polish my chapters and send them to the editor and copy-editor. It is amazing to see the book start to take a definite shape, it won’t be long before I get the first galley!
Some quick updates:
- I will be creating a special page on the site for the book, where I will upload some of the videos that I recorded while down in Chicago and other interesting tidbits so keep an eye out for that!
- I’ll be returning to North America at the end of March and will post more details on when and where, hopefully we can put together a Toronto #Geeklunch?
- I am currently wading through two hundred emails that I haven’t been able to access due to spotty internet connections and hitting my head. If I owe you something please be patient or resend if it is time sensitive.
I am so glad to finally return to a normal blogging and twittering schedule!
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