Tom Guariello chatted to me about the notion of “driving change” in organisations and has just uploaded part 1 as a podcast. Neither of us really like the assumptions about organisations that often seem tied up with that phrase.
Update: Tom’s uploaded part 2 now.
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Gianpiero Petriglieri proposes treating careers as works of art. Success in art is not just making a living or being famous and acclaimed. Those are consequences. Success is moving and
Shane Parrish points to a recurrent problem managers face: they rely on “maps” of their organisations that can never really capture reality. We are so reliant on abstraction that we
David Weinberger points to buyitlikeyoumeanit. This site aims to aggregate people’s ratings of companies on a variety of measures. You then get to set up your own scoring system based
Nice provocative thought from Earl Mardle: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” Corollary, you end up with a business that only produces measurements. There’s no point being
