Posts made in October, 2011

Making mistakes on the job: An end to shame and secrecy

Posted by on Oct 13, 2011 in Insight and Inspiration, Workplace Culture | 0 comments

I attended TEDx just a few weeks ago, and though there were many great speakers (some funny, some mind-bending, some 3/5th sci-fi) my favourite was Dr. Brian Goldman.  I’ll spend the rest of this post on him, but if you’re curious about other speakers, check out this round-up.  [Update:  TED has now posted his talk here]. It’s a curious thing to see the face behind the voice you’ve been listening to on the radio, so at first I was just mesmerized by this man’s actual physical presence, as a whole person and not a disembodied set of vocal chords.  But his...

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