Real Advice Hurts

In the wonderful Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott talks about the incredible, ripping pain she felt after having her tonsils removed. All she wanted to do was chug pain killers and let the stupid thing heal, but, Anne’s doctor gave her some advice that she found as unbelievable as it was painful: he told her to chew some gum. Turns out that, as with a lot of injuries, the entirely sensible impulse to protect and baby a wounded area was the opposite of what Anne actually needed in order to fix the problem. So, by enduring the excruciating pain of chewing gum for just a few minutes, the muscles in her throat suddenly unclenched, and Anne’s pain went away forever. The advice Anne wanted wasn’t the advice she needed. And, like we all eventually learn, the best advice you’ll get in life hurts like hell at the time. Because it has to.

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The Emergence of Digital Media as an Information AND a Learning Tool

At last we are beginning to see the emergence into the mainstream of digital media, not only as an information tool but as a learning tool as well. However it still takes some effort to find out just what is available in the way of free learning. On a feed I get from Presentation Zen, I noticed a reference to Ben Zander that took me to Pop Tech, an obvious competitor to TED that ulimately took me to DIGG that took me to a site that provided on line links to recent lectures from MIT, Harvard, Stamford, Oxford etc.. Now the information revolution is beginning to take shape. As Clay Shirky says in his book, Here Comes Everybody whether we think access to so much information is a good or bad thing is now beyond considering, it is a reality!

Announcing the BNET Australia and Creative Leadership Forum Media Content Partnership.

The Creative Leadership Forum is delighted to announce it has signed an agreement with BNET Australia (www.bnet.com), a website focused on supporting Australia's 4.5 million managers's leading on-line daily management and business journal to become a major content provider in the area of creative leadership, creativity and innovation. Concurrently, the Creative Leadership Forum is also pleased to announce a new series of workshops entitled Moments of Learning to align itself with BNET Australia's objective of providing action-oriented intelligence for managerial professionals that's smart, useful, and always right at your fingertips The Creative Leadership Forum Moments are 2 hour monthly programmes designed as short introductory learning experiences offering

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