After Sean let fly at the market research business I’m pleased to see Piers doing the same for the trendspotters.
For me, there’s a message linking both: can we get away from putting our faith in magic feathers and soothsayers? I think if we do, we could move to much less grandiose but fertile territory.
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
JP has a good post about how Open Source makes you responsible. He quotes Chuq van Rospach thus: Open source requires you as a manager of IT, or as a
A friend emailed me this short blurb about a book by Peter Block – The Answer to How is Yes. I’ll probably never get round to the book but this
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human issues and guide businesses down
Narcissists Look Like Good Leaders—But They Aren’t! – Association for Psychological Science via @CultureRevealed
