Talk tonight

A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I've been invited to deliver this year's Heisler Lecture on Business Ethics at Ohio Wesleyan University.

I've worked up a passionate and, I hope, informed talk on the Ethics of Speech in Business (and Life).

Tonight is the night (Monday, April 7) and...

You are cordially invited.

Admission is free. The organizers expect about 170 attendees.

All you have to do is come to the Delaware campus. Here's the Google map to get you to the Benes Rooms of Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center 40 Rowland Avenue, Delaware, Ohio.

The talk starts at 7:30 p.m.

(Spoiler alert: Don't peek if you are attending. Here are the slides I'm using.)

But what if you can't wait until 7:30?
What if you want to hear a talk, any talk, right now?

Then, dear reader, you have issues.

So here — in the convenience of your computer — is another talk from TED ("Ideas Worth Spreading") that is wonderfully interesting. (Thanks to Tina for sending it my way.)

In the following video, a brain scientist finally explains the idea of Right Brain/Left Brain in a way that even I can understand. She understands the difference, because she personally had a stroke that interrupted the left side of her brain.

Here's Jill Bolte Taylor describing My Stroke of Insight.

(If the video below takes too long to load, just click here and you'll go straight to her talk on the TED website.)

Comments

[Ann Marie Mecera]

I was not prepared for the talk I heard you give at Ohio Wesleyan. Yes, I thought it would be a 'nice' presentation. Instead, it will change my life. Sure, I had heard semblances of this message before. But never the way you articulated it—and supported it with personal examples. Having heard you speak last night, I realized there was no going back—as unsettling as that has been to deal with in the last 24 hours(change of this caliber is hard). However, knowing that I can be a better person in my personal and business relationships (as well as for myself) feels liberating. Many, many thanks, Artie.

P.S. Keep the visuals.

[Betsey Krause]

Artie, thank you for filling my last hour with your positivism. I enjoyed your talk.