Mark pointed to this the other day: Henry Mintzberg on Beyond Selfishness. I agree with almost all of it. I especially liked this table of two ways to manage – a simplification of course, but a good one.
Learning happens best when the gap isn’t too great…
Magic, relationship and changing status
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
The good people at NESTA have posted a video of Co-Creation Rules. It’s about 20 mins extracted from the 90 min workshop James and I hosted there last month. It’s
I’m cream crackered (Baffled Americans see this explanation) It’s been a good week and I’ve been “on-stage” for more of it that I’m used to. Quite a lot of facilitiation
My work really revolves around conversations. I host unhurried conversations and I help people have difficult conversations. When facilitating meetings I often work to shift away from unwieldly one-to-many formats towards more conversational ways of
Paul Clarke muses on the morality of his own eavesdropping. Interesting stuff. As someone who works in training/facilitation I was quite engaged by the eavesdropped rail employee who was in
