Recently, I was thinking about two different types of change that I’ve observed in the world: progress and innovation. Both forms of change represent advancement,
I recently read an article in Convene which captured the mistakes that were made during a two-year effort to launch a content marketing event
The recent revelations of misbehavior by different individuals and organizations has got me thinking about human nature more broadly. For each of us there’s a
Many people tend to consider the respect – perhaps even deference – that’s given to them as part of their job to be attributable to
Most people in business are followers. They are the people will neither create anything nor be the first to jump opportunistically on a new
An interesting column in last month’s Convene advocated working with your competition or co-opting them as competitors so that everyone can benefit. The piece included
Before I started The Event Mechanic! there were two types of companies for which I worked: 1) an event generator and 2) an event buyer.
There’s been considerable discussion in recent years regarding the imminent replacement of many elements of the labor force with robots. The proposition got me thinking
During my time in the events business I’ve seen a fair number of successful events, as well as witnessed some failures. In my experience, there
Recently a client asked how I would describe the lifecycle of an event. The question prompted me to ruminate that an event involves decisions that
