Joyce Gioia on identifying trends, scanning processes, stakeholder experience, and adopting personas for communicating (Ep22)

by Ross Dawson | May 25, 2022 | Podcast

“In order to write, I scan over 80 or more newsletters and magazines. If I get a newsletter and there isn’t something in there that I’ve used in a while then I’ll just unsubscribe from that one and look for another one that might be...

Stephen Poor on discerning relevance, distilling facts, thriving for lawyers and legal students, and consciously seeing connections (Ep21)

by Ross Dawson | May 18, 2022 | Podcast

“It’s about not getting so constrained by the channel of information and see it as a sole purpose, but being able to see the connection points to other things that are relevant to you.” – Stephen Poor About Stephen Poor Stephen is Chair Emeritus of...

Abhijit Bhaduri on divergence and convergence, the power of sketchnotes, multidisciplinary sensemaking, and skill portfolios (Ep20)

by Ross Dawson | May 11, 2022 | Podcast

“You could spend all your life just drinking from that firehose and not making sense of it, or you can say, Okay, enough, let me try and structure this. That’s really the magic.” – Abhijit Bhaduri About Abhijit Bhaduri Abhijit is an author, blogger,...

Gerd Leonhard on understanding between the lines, his favorite apps and tools, sharing bookmarks and tags, keynote storylines, and using visual catalogs (Ep19)

by Ross Dawson | May 4, 2022 | Podcast

“Sometimes you just have to say, I don’t know why, I have no idea what that is. I think a lot of people are under a lot of pressure to know everything, understand everything, especially in our business, and you just can’t.” – Gerd Leonhard...

Madeline Ashby on watching the fringes, finding common threads, sensing and sensemaking, and using murder walls (Ep18)

by Ross Dawson | Apr 22, 2022 | Podcast

“There will never not be a demand for people who know how to communicate. It’s about not just finding the information, but finding out how to share it effectively.” – Madeline Ashby About Madeline Ashby Madeline Ashby is a highly successful science...