I recently listened to a speaker talk about this “blue sky idea” that I know will never work, yet the audience was eating it up… Does this sound familar?  It certainly is something I’ve seen happen over and over.

The information this speaker provided was:

• Outdated
• Unrealistic
• Unusable

Yet, the audience was feeling good.  Perhaps that is all that matters.

This happens every day all over the country.

To prevent yourself from falling into this trap and wasting both time and money, you should ask yourself a few questions before signing up for that next seminar:

• Who are you listening to?
• Do they know what they are doing?
• Can they demonstrate what they are talking about?
• When was the last time that they did what they are telling you works so well?

The business audience is depending on the expertise of the speaker to bring them new ways to think about and know the world around them.

A good speaker shows new ways to “know and see” the world.

There is a profound difference between knowing what to do and being able to do what you know.

The key to execution is being able to do what you know and then get it done to the outcome of a stable result.

Really, knowing how to do something means that you can think with the materials and that you can improvise and innovate, because nothing is as cut and dry as it seems.

Just something to think about.

 

As I viewed this video in the wee hours of the morning, I was struck by the collaboration and combination that the embrace of technology has spawned within the arts community. Because of the internet and social media technologies, dance moves from one part of the world are easily shared elsewhere. Thus an acceleration of the evolution of dance as we know it.

Moving the art form to levels that we have not seen before. This is spectacular to watch.

This is the true use of technology as it used to create new movement and expression. This is the highest and best use of media.

In this short video I saw:

• value exchange
• emotional response
• years of dedicated practice
• self discipline to perfect a craft

Manipulation of space, time and energy are within the realm of quantum physics but are part of the vocabulary of dance. Amazing and intriguing.

What I also observed was dance styles that are from the 70’s still being practiced and refined and taken to new levels of control and perfection.

Alot of implications here…

Like when was the last time, you got up from your computer and really interacted with people?

Hmmm….

Enjoy.