http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ en-us johnnie@johnniemoore.com 2013-05-19T08:19:08+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003214.php I revisited this article about Baba Shiv's research on how easily our brain tires of rational processing. In one experiment, led by Baba Shiv at Stanford University, several dozen undergraduates were divided into two groups. One group was given a... 3214@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-19T08:19:08+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003213.php Another good post by Chris Rodgers, about talking instead of systems. In his usual precise if dense style, he unpicks how we often talk about organisations in ways that effectively disconnect us from reality. And so, instead of thinking in... 3213@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-19T08:12:17+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003212.php I often use Open Space working with groups. I suspect that we often choose approaches that have something to teach us... a bit like the saying, We all teach what we most need to learn. Or as I say, the... 3212@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-17T09:51:29+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003211.php I wrote the other day about the dangers of facilitators who are in love with their process. When that happens, I think they're actually relating to their idea, rather than to the people in front of them. It's a mistake... 3211@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-17T09:44:45+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003210.php Roger Schank looks at what google searches have led people to his blog. It's both funny and sad. It leads him to this statement, and I pretty much agree.Most kids are miserable in school. We need to stop teaching the... 3210@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-15T15:19:47+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003209.php Nancy Dixon has a meaty post up about some of the things that undermine group conversations. I'm often inclined to say "can't we just talk" when offered a complicated way of organising things, but of course it's not as simple... 3209@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-15T15:08:24+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003208.php Dave Snowden talks about Nancy Dixon's challenge to his recent speech at a KM conference.Nancy Dixon, in response to my keynote yesterday, expressed a preference for getting people together to talk about things rather than gathering narrative into a... 3208@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-05-15T14:23:40+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003207.php Now we've done the book, Viv and I are turning our minds to other ways of spreading the word... that meetings don't have to be awful. So we're happy to be developing an online course with James Allen of Creative... 3207@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-29T10:23:10+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003206.php David Gurteen (via Keith de la Rue) spots an interesting piece of research on the effect of group size on the kinds of conversations that happen. Here's a snippet from the paper:The experiments reported in this paper show that in... 3206@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-21T18:55:06+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003205.php Viv is out in Papua New Guinea doing facilitation training. We sometimes do this together, and I know it's harder doing it on your own. It's not surprising we agree on lots of things, including this:If I’m learning to be... 3205@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-21T18:04:19+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003204.php Anthony Mayfield reflects on the joys of liminal thinking. It's a subject that really interests me.In the context of creative and strategic thinking, the liminal state is what you find yourself in just before you have a breakthrough, or just... 3204@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-12T13:53:22+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003203.php Viv and I will be hosting a one day workshop on Creative Facilitation. It's on Monday July 15th, at Wallacespace St Pancras. We've offered this training in various formats as far afield as Bangkok, Melbourne and the Solomon Islands.... 3203@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-12T13:08:50+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003202.php When I moved to Cambridge last year, my dream was to get a place where I could have people stay. All through the winter I sat in the house wondering if I was insane. But now that there are... 3202@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ My News 2013-04-09T16:37:43+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003201.php After rereading Tim Gallwey's The Inner Game of Work, I picked up its predecessor, The Inner Game of Tennis. It's a delightfully slim book and so far it might be even better. He tells a lovely story about coaching a... 3201@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Facilitation 2013-04-05T16:26:48+00:00 http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/archives/003198.php I get to use the Cambridge University Library these days, which I have to say is a pretty nice privilege if you can swing it. Perhaps that's why i seem to be reminiscing more about student days. I seem to... 3198@http://www.johnniemoore.com/blog/ Miscellaneous (everything is) 2013-04-05T15:15:40+00:00