Thanks for the enthusiastic reception at PIPELINE CONF today. Here are my slides from my talk:

Books Mentioned in this Talk

• My Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter. How to go about lasting change that sticks
• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks

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Thanks for the great reception at DPM UK today; and for all the folks who braved the snow!

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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Thank you so much to the Fronteers Conf 2014 crew for inviting me to Amsterdam to speak about hacking people & process to make accessibility and other good practice intrinsic in how we work.

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

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I was delighted to speak today at the Digital Project Management Summit 2014 in Austin, Texas. Below are my slides, and the links to the books and resources that I mentioned.

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• If you don’t have time to read Drive, watch this fab sketchnote video of one of Dan’s talks
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

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As promised, here are my slides from my Agile on the Beach 2014 talk.

I also mentioned my Coaching & Mentoring talk which you can find here (including video kindly published by the Dare Mini folks).

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink — there is also a wonderful sketchnote video of his talk from RSA
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Not listed in the presentation, but an excellent couple of coaching books are The Inner Game of Tennis and Coaching for Performance

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Was delighted to speak at Thinking Digital 2014 in my adoptive UK hometown of Newcastle.

As promised here are my slides:

I also mentioned my Coaching & Mentoring talk which you can find here (including video kindly published by the Dare Mini folks).

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Not listed in the presentation, but an excellent couple of coaching books are The Inner Game of Tennis and Coaching for Performance

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Today I was in Edinburgh speaking at Highland Fling: Sessions. It was a very enjoyable day, with a theme of “in the trenches”, i.e. how we get things done day-by-day.

My talk centred around people management and inclusion, on what people need to get & stay motivated in their work, and how to make our spaces more inclusive. The slides are embedded here or can be viewed directly on Slideshare.

Books Mentioned in This Talk

• First Break All The Rules by Marcus Buckingham
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World Class Performers from Everyone Else by Geoff Colvin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
• Not listed in the presentation, but an excellent couple of coaching books are The Inner Game of Tennis and Coaching for Performance

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Really enjoying Dare Mini — here are my slides from my talk on coaching earlier today. Thanks for all the great feedback so far!

The Dare Mini folks have posted the videos — you can view mine here and all the others here (please consider donating if you benefit from them).