Max signed off in grand style with a wonderfully witty and educational post on the cognitive load of queuing at Starbucks. In two weeks time, bracketed around the HBR publication date, Mary E Boone my co-author of our leadership article (which is confirmed as the cover feature) will occupy this space. For the next two weeks we have one of the longest standing CE practitioners (back to IBM days), one of the originals, Shawn Callahan. I have often called Shawn and his colleagues at Anecdote magpies (which is a high complement, the corvidae have a special place in celtic legend) as they have an ability to find and connect to interesting things which is more or less unrivaled. Mind you I am a bit worried, Facebook just told me that Shawn had taken the Movie Compatibility Report and while we are Good Friends overall there are some key differences. Titanic, Chonicles of Narnia, King Kong, The Ring and Braveheart are all very bad or grounds for divorce!
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Left-brained vs right-brained categorization need not be taken so literally. Certainly I agree it has no firm basis in physiology -- or rather it is a gross simplification (and hence a distortion), but the labels may have utility. I consider myself a philosophical creative type. I am an engineer that graduated #1 in my class, but I have a classic right -brained communication style. The label is useful sometimes to communicate to others that have a different communication style that my manner of speaking is not defective, but different. Certainly a speaker must talk with the intended audience in mind, but also listeners need to be open to exploratory thinking and brainstorming and subjects that are more nebulous or push the boundaries of received ideas or habitual and institutional prejudices. "Right / Left" brain distinctions help me sometimes give those who stereotype me and alternative way of looking at who I am.
Posted by Kate Peterson | May 1, 2008 8:55 AM
Posted on May 1, 2008 08:55