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.
spaciousness over stimulation
An project with the Oxford Praxis Lab
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
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
Howard Mann is the latest blogger to turn on Dell: Dell’s Flat World Leaves Me Flat!. I’ll put this in the box with my post of yesterday about Internetters/Iomart who
Another short video in my reflections series. This one is about working with people in an unhurried way…
Lara Logan You Suck — RollingStone.com Matt Taibbi slams the mainstream media for protecting the powerful instead of looking after their readers. It needed saying. russell davies: cognitive surplus –
Roger Martin has started a series of posts arguing that bosses of big organisations are increasingly disconnected from reality: I want to explore the growing malaise around business in particular
