Shawn Callahan at Anecdote links to a video presentation on complexity by Michael Crichton. Sean highlights these quotes:
To learn how to manage complex systems takes humility.
To manage complex systems takes the ability to admit we are wrong and to change course.
If you manage a complex system you are frequently if not always wrong.
Fascinating stuff.
When facilitating, more and more I want to sense the next move at my fingertips
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
Kathy Sierra comments on this morale-sapping policy at Mrs Fields Cookies: Employees must throw away ALL unpurchased cookies at the end of the night. Employees are expressly forbidden from taking
Just as fish may not notice the water they swim in, so we miss the impact of language on our choices
FTC protects journalism’s past « BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis presents a textbook case of the establishment circling the wagons… the only comfort being that it does so mostly ineffectually
The origins of Boba Fett illustrate how creativity can be serendipitous
