August 24, 2007

Qual v Quant

Johnnie Moore

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Chris Corrigan pointed me to this post by Bob Sutton: Evidence-Based Management Doesn’t Mean Just Quantitative Evidence. The post, and the comments added, make lots of sense to me. I read one of Sutton’s previous books, The Knowing-Doing Gap but hadn’t realised he’s also responsible for Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense and The No-Asshole Rule.

It’s nice to run into a B School professor type with a clear preference for Anglo-Saxon over Latin. I’ve added his blog to my aggregator!

Bunny Bunny

A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings

Don’t panic

Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.

Hamlet and meeting absurdity

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.

Embodied thinking vs slippery AI

A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied

Playing with eye contact

Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams

Noticing

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Facilitation antlers

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Small p presence

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Small i improv

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