Grande Lum quotes WH Auden:
Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences whatever they may be.
Good advice to facilitators, and reminds me of my own favoured mantra: notice more, change less.
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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
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
What a pity that Lucy Kellaway’s piss-take on Deloittes’ Little Blue Book of Strategy is behind the FT paywall. Here’s a bit of what you might be missing:On the second
I decided to have a very quiet day yesterday stayed in bed a long time and left the computer off all day. Subsisted on healthy meals interspersed with comfort food
I agree with Andrew Sullivan’s analysis: America has exchanged some if its basic freedoms for the patina of phony security – and so easily… We have terrible enemies abroad seeking
Mark Earls has a nice post on (the people formerly known as) the audience. The best part, for me, was this warning of marketeers being in collusion with Calvinism. Talk
