I’d love to run a management course based entirely on lessons from Monty Python.
The subject of meetings could probably be covered simply with scenes from the Life of Brian. For example to cover the topic of action theatre (lectures on the importance of action that don’t really support action) I’d have to use this clip:
not getting stuck at the centre of attention
finding a more human way of connecting in the networks we belong to
Embracing uncertainty and avoiding simplistic solutions
What’s going on when we use language?
There’s more potential in each moment than we realise
there’s more to meeting fear than our thoughts
getting out of the rut in familiar relationships
learning from experience, not theory
noticing the effect our stories have on us as tellers
Being careful where we invest our imagination
Shel Israel has posted Chapter 2 of The Red Couch. It’s a good read, basically explaining the story of blogs at Microsoft ending with the rhetorical question Our point is
Lauren Collister defends emoticons and various other bits of linguistic shorthand against those who insist on the sanctity of language. I know I can be a language pedant tut-tutting the
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