Phil Dourado has a good post on the pitfalls of management-by-metrics including the absurdity of ambulances waiting outside hospitals with their patients. (Because A&E have a target, set by goverment, for processing patients and the clock starts when they come in through the door)
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
What I’ve learnt from limiting my use of social media for three months….
Steve Yastrow blogs his new article, The Window and the Mirror. This prompts some further thoughts about the difference between change, and just talking about change.
A propos my last three posts, may I restate my view that great marketing is about facilitating conversations, not talking loudly on someone else’s behalf? Thanks for listening. (By the
After a panel session on Direct Marketing I wonder if we should stop looking for miracle cures for ailing brands, and instead encourage them to go cold turkey, prolong their confusion, and keep asking searching questions – to find a real sense of purpose to outlast the easy gimmickry of the admen.
A big hat-tip to Stefan Liute for his post The biological hardware for culture. He points to this article from the NY Times: Cells that read minds. Here are a
