Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email.
Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. Dinah Craik, A Life for a Life, 1859
Magic, relationship and changing status
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
Letting go in order to get in flow…
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Adpulp spotted this article in the WSJ: My boss wants to ‘friend’ me. Declining a “friend” request from a colleague or a boss is a slight. So Mr. Dyer accepted
Well it looks like Lovemarks is getting a lot of heat in the blogosphere at the moment. As Hugh recounts, the Cluetrain authors have all kicked in and Doc Searls
Dave Pollard does a great summary of Nassim Taleb’s thinking. I’m very interested in all the cognitive biases listed there; it’s so easy for us humans to think we know
Roland Harwood at 100% Open describes five vectors of our postmodern economy. We do seem to be living in confusing if interesting times, where the benefits of hyper-connectedness are coming into question.
