Oli Barrett has a great post remembering Robert Davies who a few months before his death wrote this:
Our lives are all too short not to share what and who we know so the world can profit and the journey to sutainability can be shortened.
Oli also invokes Theodore Zeldin’s notion that life is a search for people, an idea I find quite appealing today.
leaving your props behind
feeling the power of presence… and what it really means to ‘read the room.’
we’re hungry for connection
What brings conversations to life is often missed when we aim too high
What I learned singing to strangers on the subway, and why emotional connections matters even more in a hi-tech era.
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’ve never had any excuse to quote Nietzsche in this blog. (For someone with a a degree in Philosophy I have a hard time spelling the name never mind reading
In his book Dialog William Isaacs tells a strange story. A woman wakes in the night to find herself being strangled by an unseen foe. After struggling in the dark,
My mate Tony Quinlan makes a good point about storytelling as a change technique in organisations.Storytelling is a misnomer. It conjures up the image of a passive audience sitting listening
Nick Wreden reviews Asian Branding, and tells a great story about how the Singapore Girl ad campaign was sold to the airline by a failed restauranteur who became a leading Asian adman.
