I used to call my workshop for facilitators “Facilitation for Surprise”. I was thinking of reverting to that title, and more so when I got this picture. It was taken of me at the Post Danmark conference I keynoted in September. Here I am hosting the drawing exercise I’m fond of using when talking about co-creation.
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
This autumn’s Applied Improv Conference (New York Sept 29-Oct 2) is looking set to be a great event. We’ve just added an opening session on the Thursday evening called The
Manuel Lima challenges the prevailing metaphor of the tree for understanding systems. The metaphor has deep roots (see what I did there?), for instance when we casually say genetics is
I’m currently trialling the Cloudmark’s SafetyBar anti-spam software, after learning about it from Chris Anderson. Here’s what interests me: at the moment, I am not plagued with Spam and the
Thanks to Euan for digging out this Krishnamurti quote. I can see why Krishnamurti formed a friendship with David Bohm: they both share some interesting insights into the nature of
