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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Jeff Jarvis, Facebook’s changes Jarvis believes that journalism should serve people’s individual needs rather than manufacture content for the masses. When the attendees are the owners, meeting designs that build and support community are the obvious way to go. But, all too often, attendees are not the conference owners.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

They go against hundreds of years of cultural programming. Yet as I entered the world of research and academia I realized I was also curious about the social and organizational cultures I found there. So at the age of 26 I joined and became an owner of a solar manufacturing company. Meeting design and facilitation.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

All meeting design needs to recognize this reality. The things we do reflect our culture. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. All too often, top-down institutional culture leads inexorably to hierarchical meeting formats. Institutions.

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APRIL 1, 2024

And it’s mostly about meeting design and facilitation, but I write about all kinds of things. Adrian Segar: The subtlety of designing meetings is that you need people who I would call facilitators. I define myself as a meeting designer and facilitator. We still have a lot of top-down culture.

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