Northwest Leader - Brian Dolleman » TED Talk https://www.northwestleader.com Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:24:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 Maybe We Should Talk To Strangers https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/maybe-talk-strangers/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/maybe-talk-strangers/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:28:11 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5696 I’m a typical Seattleite—polite, but in a distancy-kind-of-way. Definitely not chatty. Socially cocooned. Whenever I read about the Seattle Freeze, I get it… I mean I really get it. But maybe we should talk to strangers. That’s the conclusion I’m arriving at after watching Kio Stark’s TED Talk. Here are my favorite lines from Why […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/maybe-talk-strangers/feed/ 0 The Power of Powerless Communication https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/power-powerless-communication/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/power-powerless-communication/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:00:50 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5297 From best selling author Susan Cain… Organizational psychologist Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at Wharton and author of The New York Times bestseller Give and Take, has been researching the difference between communication patterns – those who use dominance, and others who use questions and admit uncertainty. And he has presented a groundbreaking concept: the power […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2016/power-powerless-communication/feed/ 0 A Little Different But Just As Fun https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/little-different-just-fun/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/little-different-just-fun/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2015 14:16:13 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4960 On Fridays I like to share a few funny and/or interesting videos. Today is a little different, but just as fun. Here’s what I have for you: 1) Audio of Jubal’s prank “Phone Tap” of a church-going grandmother about discontinuing the pancake breakfast at church. Warning: language is PG-13. Thanks to Moses Masitha for sharing […]

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]]> https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/little-different-just-fun/feed/ 1 Stone Catchers https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/stone-catchers/ https://www.northwestleader.com/2015/stone-catchers/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2015 15:39:29 +0000 Brian Dolleman http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=4791 Bryan Stevenson is a human rights lawyer and author – his book Just Mercy is a NY Times Bestseller. The following is from a 2012 interview with Chris Hedges for Smithsonian Magazine: Stevenson turns frequently to the Bible. He quotes to me from the Gospel of John, where Jesus says of the woman who committed […]

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