Dave Snowden points to the Lifecycle of a Silver Bullet. It’s a painfully accurate description of how management fads get created.
It prompted me to reread my own story about management secrets involving a consultant and a milliepede.
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
Jon Husband offers a translation of Ils sont vos futurs employés relating to an article in English now behind the FT paywall. (FT take note: information wants to be free
This weekend an experimental Thinking Hotel is happening in Soho, London over 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday noon. Here’s the essence:The Thinking Hotel is a vision of a future
Persisting through constant repetition can lead to remarkable creativity
PSFK: Smash Hits Closes PSFK spots the demise of teen magazine Smash Hits… cos its readers now get what they want faster and deeper online… (tags: marketing new+media connected+media) —–
