Ken Thompson points to this LA Times article by Jeffrey Kluger about simplexity – how apparently inconsequential things can have major effects in systems.
I’m not one for jargon, but I quite like this word simplexity. I’m fascinated by the paradoxical power of the simple and the complex. I think we too often miss it favour of seeing the merely complicated. (More on that in this essay I wrote a few years ago.)
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….
A couple more thoughts on The Southwest Paradox I blogged yesterday. When we chatted Michael Herman pointed out that the unsuccessful airlines can’t be separated clinically from Southwest. They’re the
Last month I quoted Bill Isaacs on fixed beliefs: Beneath the reluctance to let go of our beliefs is the fear that there will be nothing underneath – a kind
James Cherkoff points to a webinar (hate that word) on blogging. Sometimes you come across corporate communication that makes parody redundant. I think this offering from Delahaye (a division of
Pushing ideas especially big ideas, is a high-status play. It sounds more important and macho than worrying about fluffy icky things like relationships. I am sitting writing this in an
