our thinking for January 2009…

1. January 26th, 2009

   Interested in Interesting?

   Are you interesting? Better yet, are you Interesting? From the Interesting Portland site: “The idea behind Interesting is simple: an evening of 20 interesting people each talking about something they love/hate/do/did/know/care about/obsess over… the only requirement is that each presentation be either 3 or 10 minutes long.” So it’s a bit different from events like Ignite… there’s no set number of PowerPoint…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Events

2. January 19th, 2009

   Mistakes, MLK Day and Substance Year Two

   “Energy that’s being poured into trying to duplicate past successes can’t be applied to the search for new ones.” – Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes, Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins Over my holiday vacation I read Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins. (Anyone who’s been following me on Twitter can tell you I’m on a “mistakes” kick lately, up to…

   posted by Stephen Landau

   thinking about… Inspiration, News

3. January 7th, 2009

   Substance 2008 Recap-a-palooza

   With another year added to the record books, we have the benefit of hindsight to look at what happened over the last twelve months at Substance. It’s been quite a ride in 2008… Fail, fail, fail. With all of the projects we launched in 2008 and the things we have lined up for 2009, you might think it’s all rainbows and lollipops…

   posted by the People of Substance

   thinking about… News, The Way We Work