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Reverb Consulting is a young consultancy interested in helping people and organizations fulfill their missions. Our name is inspired from one of Phil's heroes, Buckminster Fuller. Bucky Fuller said, "I seem to be a verb." We love that because it is all about action, action that we believe is derived from active thinking, re-thinking, re-formulating the pieces of the puzzle that confounds you. In re-directing learning and understanding, we help people see anew, or re-see, so that more is possible. We are Reverb because the need to re-_____ is always there. The process is evolutionary and never ending. Change, therefore, is natural, desired, and celebrated as life.

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Margaret Wheatley's work is truly inspiring. Like ecosystems and biological systems, organizations are dynamic. Their cultures can be healthy or unhealthy, uncooperative, hostile, and disengaged. One of the best ways to re-energize and discover the nature of an organization's culture is to have it expose its thinking through focused and facilitated conversation around questions that count. Our conversation-based workshops actively involve large groups in thinking together. The results are astonishing. Key to the success of such a workshop is having realistic expectations for outcomes, understanding the value of the process which is fluid and not open to explicit control, and determining right questions.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Fun With Words

I love words - written, spoken, quoted. I love play with words like what e.e. cummings created, or Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), or Shel Silverstein. I love to see words in art, like the work of Alan Fletcher in The Art of Looking Sideways. I love biting words used in editorials like those of Maureen Dowd or Ben Stein or Thomas Friedman or David Brooks, all favorites. I wish I could do with words what they all do!

I have discovered an awesome word memelet: Wordle. It is a program written by IBM programmer Jonathan Feinberg. For a wordophile like me, it is addictively fun. The gallery has some great wordles. Here are just a few that I have made. Make one of your own.

and, with my del.icio.us tags:

Too much fun!

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Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that created them."

You must change the type of thinking, influence growth and new understanding in your thinkers. This is best accomplished with a jolt of new information and new thinking that can be seeded in your organization and then nurtured to take hold.

Topics for speaking:
Sustainability

Change as Opportunity

Change as Competitive Necessity

Relevance and Re-Alignment

21st Century Opportunity

10 Big Ideas that Rule

Visioning Your Future Workshop
(3 to 5 hours)

Understanding 21st c. Education Demands

Parents as Partners in Education

Learning Differences and Disabilities - What to Do

Finding Solutions for Problems Before You Have Them

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Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Fun With Words

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