Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning says this:
One of the key tasks of management is to create an organization that stimulates the complexity of those who belong to it.
It’s so tempting instead to write complicated rules that actually stifle people’s complexity. And it’s not just management that could do with remembering this, it’s all of us.
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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.
There are a couple of TV shows I’ve seen lately that remind me of the difficult conversations process. In The Chase, a team of players compete against a quiz show
Richard Gayle has a great post on the difference between chemists and biologists as an example of different approaches to managing systems. Life developed its huge complexity in order to
Start Before You’re Ready | Steven Pressfield Online "Remember, the enemy is not the work. It’s not the difficulty of the work. The enemy is Resistance."
David Weinberger quoted by Jeff Jarvis: There is an inverse relationship between control and trust.
