Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning says this:
One of the key tasks of management is to create an organization that stimulates the complexity of those who belong to it.
It’s so tempting instead to write complicated rules that actually stifle people’s complexity. And it’s not just management that could do with remembering this, it’s all of us.
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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
I notice the word “senior” used a lot in business speak. On The Apprentice the other week Donald introduced two execs from P&G and emphasised that they were “senior”, with
I like Jay Rosen’s perspective on journalism in a time of wicked problems. (Thanks to Harold Jarche for the link) Near the end Rosen calls for “savage clarity” in journalism.
I’m running a new workshop with my friend Alan Moore. Crafting Beautiful Businesses is on 27 September in London. The words beauty and business sound an unlikely pairing. Business is
