By the trending on my Twitter feed, it looks to be #InternationalWomensDay. Aside from a skeptical voice whispering to me that this is a day for misogynists to cover their tracks for whatever they’re up to the rest of the year, I do believe it’s good to call attention [...]
Here’s an excerpt from my book, GameChangers–Improvisation for Business in the Networked World, on the future of the organization. [...]
Numbers, on their own, represent quantity, and do not guarantee quality. 100 can be a perfect score on a test, an average IQ, or a bad round of golf. What guarantees quality is the story that provides context for the data. Data and stories are co-constituted. One cannot, does [...]
There’s a good piece running in Scientific American demonstrating that ‘Storytelling is Surprisingly Arithmetic.’ (I’m geeking on how they use the word ‘arithmetic’ as an adjective!) Research done at the U. of Vermont on 1,300 works of fiction claims to have [...]
If you’re a fan of the television series, The Bachelor, this is a spoiler alert: Molly Hawkey wins. Molly is an actress and improviser from Los Angeles who edited herself into this season of The Bachelor as a contestant and created a media frenzy last week. All sorts of media [...]
When improvisers performing onstage, athletes on a field of play, or writers building fictional worlds experience a shift in their perception of time, they talk about being in the flow. When this happens, their perception of time changes. They talk about time slowing down, or of not having any [...]