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The World-Changing Way We Meet Now

“Can meetings save the world?” we asked in our January cover story. Our focus was on what we termed  ”big-tent, big-idea” meetings — from the Clinton Global Initiative to PopTech — which bring together the world’s leading thinkers and activists … Continue reading

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Designing For Creativity

How Do You Design For Creativity? “Over time, our belief systems can harden into rigid walls that prevent us from considering alternative viewpoints,” Convene columnist Jeffrey Cufaude writes in “Think Differently” in our February issue. “And that’s a problem.” To think … Continue reading

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A Brooklyn Tale

No matter how brilliant our ideas for new ways of designing meetings or communicating with members and attendees may be, they won’t work if we don’t know our audience. I’ve heard that a hundred times, but it was brought home … Continue reading

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Don’t Monkey Around With Stress

Neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky spent a dozen years in Kenya studying the relationships within a troop of baboons and learned this: We primates really stress each other out. And, as a story about Sapolsky’s work in the August issue of Wired … Continue reading

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