Links that made me think this week. Holger Nauheimer release the newest version of the Change Management Toolbook Peter Rawsthorne blogs a great BBC documentary on what a post-fossil fuel farm might look like Siona van Dijk finds Paul Hawken naming the people I play with. Jean Sebastien Bouchard turns me on to art.
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A cold day to be on the outskirts of a cold city in a cold part of the world. When you travel midweek into Canada’s hinterlands and northern small cities, you share a plane with mostly hard and tired men who work for government or various companies doing business in the far flung nether regions of this nation. Whether it’s travel to Prince George, Thunder Bay, Prince Albert or Yellowknife, it seems like the same guys are on the flight – steak eating, overworked, tired, introverted, hard men. Once in a while, if they are coming home …
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For the second time in two weeks, I’m back in Ottawa, one of my former residences, and a part of Canada that I love very much. I arrived yesterday afternoon and spent the evening walking around my old haunts on Elgin Street, going to see Milk and then finishing with a late dinner at The Manx Pub, a place located four doors down from the first place Caitlin and I lived after we moved to Ottawa in 1991. The Manx opened three weeks after we got there and it’s still going strong. Today a day of teaching hosting, …
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From my newsreader this week: Peter Rukavina blogs a fish eye view (or sushi eye view) of a Japanese evening out. Dirk at mediabuzzard on the history of Chinese – First Nations relations in British Columbia
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Interesting reads this week: DeAnna Martin on a design for using Dynamic Facilitation with large groups Worldchanging Canada has a great post about art derived from the complexity of nature Metafilter link of an insane film about fishing for Great White Sharks. From a beach. Surfing is involved. Rob Bailey on the perfect crab curry Ravi Tangri on innovation in the service industry in hard times Nancy White, with palpable delight wraps up her take on Northern Voice Sheri Herndon emailed an interesting link about how Obama communicates by George Lakoff Dustin Rivers takes his blog to new digs. …