I liked this thought, tweeted by EskoKilpi:
Poorly connected organizations always end up with simple dynamics and repetitive patterns. Highly interconnected organizations may exhibit patterns that can be described mathematically as edge of chaos dynamics.
I think this is why some people react with anxiety to the early stages of processes like Open Space: it doesn’t play out the simple patterns of the conventional hierarchy.
Letting go in order to get in flow…
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
I’m at Corante’s Marketing Innovation Conference here in New York. There was a short and interesting opening keynote from Russ Klein of Burger King. Now BK is not a brand
As I’ve been thinking/ranting about the limits of keynote presentations I realise that (as ever) the Pythons got there first. Keynoters love to think that they can just pour their
I think it was Adam Morgan in Eating the Big Fish who noticed the absurdities of advertising containing the words “that’s why”. Whenever you find those words in ad copy,
Chris Carfi identifies the money quote in Erik Keller’s article Pushing a “Pull Model” “Now this approach may be seen as foolhardy by those who believe that products are always
