John Winsor spots an interesting HBS Working Knowledge article about the advantages of sharing technical problems with diverse readers. Snippet:
The insight is that what you want to do is open up your problem to other people—not just to serendipity but in some systematic way.
What we don’t know is whether some firms may be large enough by themselves to already have the requisite variety and heterogeneity inside the firm. Could they first start by broadcasting problems inside?
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
Carl Franzen describes how scientists captured the first picture of atoms vibrating in a molecule. What caught my eye was that the technique used has been around for some years.
Dave Snowden cites this great story from a commenter to his earlier post on the perils of six sigma. When I worked at IBM we were asked (in 1990) to
Just before leaving London I had a great dinner with the Macleod of Macleod and Jason Korman from Stormhoek. I was going to blog our conversation about “objects of sociability”
