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Beyond Thanksgiving: The Power of Everyday Gratitude in Leadership

Smart Meetings

Appreciation In 2009, my life changed for the better when I made gratitude a daily habit. ” Be specific about what someone did, why it mattered, and how it impacted the team or organization. Lisa Ryan is a certified speaking professional (CSP), award-winning speaker, and author of 12 books. Ask, “What can we learn?”

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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.

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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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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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Focusing on Mission-Driven Work

Convene by PCMA

In her new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth , Salesforce executive Tiffani Bova unveils one way companies can keep employees happy. In the same study, 92 percent of respondents said that they produce better work when they “see how the quality of their work matters to the big picture” of their organization.

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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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