I found this quote in Phil Dourado‘s admirably snappy free book chapter for February.
Leadership is emotional. Leadership deals with feelings. Leadership is made up of dreams inspiration excitement desire, pride, care, passion, and love. The areas of our lives where we show the strongest leadership – including our communities, families, organizations, products, services, hobbies, and customers – are where we’re most in love. Jim Clemmer
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
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Beyond heroic leadership
Jackie Huba at Church of the Customer has nice things to say about More Space The best business books are those that cause us to think differently and if they’re
Rob has a thoroughly thought-provoking post about mushrooming healthcare costs. I think Rob finds quests for “efficiency” as suspicious as I do.
Thoughts on what I’m calling The Southwest Paradox – and what it means about a questionable assumption behind many business and other how-to books. This may be a jumping off point for my essay for the More Space project.
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
