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Which meeting design books should I buy?

Conferences that Work

Here are five meeting design books I especially recommend. In an outrageous display of chutzpah , I wrote three of these books. [If In 2013, Eric de Groot and Mike van de Vijver published this unique, extraordinary, and important book on meeting design. The story is told in the book’s preface.)

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Asheville Meet Where Community is Strong and Creative Spirit Abundant

Smart Meetings

The Asheville area focuses heavily on making a positive impact on its community through its many community service organization collaborations. The non-profit organization Riverlink also specializes in the restoration of areas in Asheville. And Asheville makes it easy for corporate groups to get involved. . Asheville’s Outdoors.

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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. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. ” — E. Institutions.

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21 Creative Ideas for Corporate Stage Design

Endless Events

That’s why event organizers chose to create a multi-dimensional set with a series of screens layered across the stage. Organizers assigned each conference topic a color. Because of the positioning of the panels, along with bold imagery and a small amount of text, it made them appear like pages in a children’s book.

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Becoming a writer

Conferences that Work

Since 2005, I’ve written three successful books on meeting design and facilitation and over 800 weekly blog posts on a wide range of topics. My books continue to sell, and this blog is the world’s most popular website on meeting design and facilitation. Write a book? Outwardly, I’ve succeeded. So here’s my story.

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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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Charting New Waters: Maldives Debuts First Sustainable Destination Management Organization

Solimar International

A shift in government regulations in 2009 transformed the Maldives’ tourism landscape. To support this effort, Solimar co-created these guesthouses and other tourism stakeholders form the country’s first Destination Management Organization (DMO): the Horsburgh Atoll Tourism Alliance (HATA) to support local tourism in the Maldives.