Shawn Callahan at Anecdote links to a video presentation on complexity by Michael Crichton. Sean highlights these quotes:
To learn how to manage complex systems takes humility.
To manage complex systems takes the ability to admit we are wrong and to change course.
If you manage a complex system you are frequently if not always wrong.
Fascinating stuff.
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.
Annette has an excellent post about psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and his new book Side Effects. Here’s a little bit of Annette’s analysis: Phillips’ suggests that you can only be distracted
On Tuesday, I started reading The Wisdom of Crowds in the ironic setting of an empty train. I decided to travel from London to Manchester by the marginally slower Midland
At Russell‘s prompting I found this amazing image of Velcro taken by Dee Breger – it’s near to the bottom of that page on Dee’s site. I think of Velcro
Chris has a great post today: values tools and authentic facilitation which really resonates with me. This passage gets to the nub: Chaordic confidence describes the ability to stay in
