I bet you’ve heard this before: “An object at rest, tends to stay at rest.” Oh, yeah, it’s Newton’s first law of motion: any object will stay at rest or in motion unless acted on by an external force. It’s also referred to as the law of inertia. Yes, an object at rest, tends to stay at rest. However, a conference at rest, tends to die. The enemy of most conferences is the way it’s always been. When inertia influences your conference, it’s planned by the way you’ve always done it, … [Read more...]
Confirmation Bias And Why Conferences Need To Become Innovation Labs
No matter how open minded people profess to be, we're all hard-wired to some degree for confirmation bias. It is a filter that we use to see reality that matches our thinking. It can cloud our thinking and distort our pursuit of facts. Confirmation Bias And Change Confirmation Bias is our default preference for consuming information that supports what we already believe. And what about people with differing viewpoints? If they're credible, we may listen for a bit, but then it's back to … [Read more...]
