Earl Mardle riffs on Clay Shirky prompted by my earlier link. Earl is vindaloo to my korma. I think he may be right.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Enclosing the commons?
Alan Moore has a long and thought-provoking post on what seems like a looming battle between forces of openness and control when it comes to the future of networks. Central
23 November 2009
Get nervous
Gavin Heaton has some good ideas about what works and doesn’t in social media. This one definitely resonates for me. Nervous – Does your content make you nervous? Do you
9 March 2010
Threat-dominated thinking
David Weinberger points to this good article byBritt Blaser. It’s a challenge to the caffeinated coverage of recent attacks by mainstream meda – and by implication to our willingness to
12 July 2005
Customer service woes
Francois at Emergence Marketing partly prompted by my post about Orange and partly by his own recent experiences, asks, “why do companies spend so little attention to the quality of
23 August 2005