This “Experience Cube” technique can help you start strengthening your weak muscles — without even really trying All leaders — every last freaking one of them — have strengths and weaknesses. Effective leaders and teammates aren’t good at everything; they don’t pretend to be the Übermensch. They just develop good self-awareness about what their strengths […]
Matthew Thompson
Matthew Thompson is a 2017 Mozilla Fellow, agile trainer, and author of the forthcoming book The Joy of Teamwork: 30 simple ways to work smarter together. After serving seven years as a Senior Director at the Mozilla Foundation, he’s currently interviewing and writing about the world’s most inspiring open source people and projects, exploring how open and […]
New Open Badges communications assets
Erin Knight and I have been working on a set of communications assets aimed at explaining the value of Mozilla and P2PU’s Open Badges project for a broad audience. We’ve just completed an updated set of drafts for: A one page overview. Explaining the project in simple terms. A simple napkin sketch, explaining the experience […]
“Why I love working open”
That’s the title of an extremely thoughtful post Eugene Eric Kim was kind enough to share with me today. It’s part of a dialogue that began after my own “How to Work Open” post a couple weeks back. Writing about the Packard Foundation‘s experiment in sharing knowledge through an open, public wiki for the past […]
Mitchell’s Four Keys for Mozilla
Mozilla’s Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker spelled out four inspiring themes for Mozilla’s future on Monday: Our mission. Our products and the people who use them. Our community. We are a community organization. Excellence. (Audio: Mitchell Baker — Mozilla All Hands — April 4 2011 .mp3) One nice excerpt that stood out for many of […]