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Has the Grinch Stolen Holiday Parties?

Smart Meetings

This is the lowest number since 2009. If your office would get a laugh out of tap dancing Christmas trees, political parodies and pop culture spoofs set to iconic holiday tunes, the satirical theater production of Steve Silver’s Beach Blanket Babylon Holiday Extravaganza in San Francisco offers group tickets and private performances.

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Now is the time to rethink and restart the events industry: Interview with Angeles Moreno, Managing Partner at the Creative Dots

The MICE Blog

Angeles Moreno is the founder of the Creative Dots , a company that helps corporations design their customer journey and create a culture of customer-centricity. I went through the dot-com crisis, 9/11 and the financial crisis in 2008, which impacted us significantly in 2009. By the end of 2009, things were recovering.

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St. Gallen: Your Complete Guide to a Top Business Event Destination

The MICE Blog

More than just a place for events, it doubles as an art gallery with about 800 square meters of exhibition space, where regularly changing exhibitions infuse corporate meetings with unique layers of art and culture. Einstein St.Gallen uniqueness stands with its cultural richness in textile heritage that goes back to 1830.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

Conferences that Work

In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics, wrote a long book about this. The things we do reflect our culture. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. ” — E. And so it goes with meetings.

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5 Reasons I’m Grateful for My Clients After 40+ Years of Consulting

Conferences that Work

” I became fascinated by the culture of organizations. I ran them in my spare time for thirteen years before writing my first book. Having spent seventeen years developing the why and how of peer conferences, you might reasonably expect that the book provided a somewhat definitive guide for peer conference rationale and design.

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Case Study: Adrian Segar – “Conferences that work”

Conferences that Work

Here’s an independent review of my conference design work, published as a case study in Chapter 25—Designing and Developing Content for Collaborative Business Events—of the book The Routledge Handbook of Business Events. Tip: The hardback version is expensive, the ebook is a quarter of the hardback cost.) on the eventization of faith.

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The Surprising Reasons We’re Bad at Predicting the Future

Conferences that Work

As the saying goes, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” Pundits often focus on cultural changes, overestimating how people’s fundamental psychological and emotional responses to experiences and issues evolve over time. Right-wing commentators continue to question whether women should even have the right to vote.