I liked this thought from Earl Mardle (riffing on this from Seth Godin).
I have a little mantra for those who always want to pluck the “low hanging fruit” or “get some easy runs on the board” do the hard stuff first, the easy stuff is always going to be easy, but going from the easy to the hard just makes the hard seem even worse.” Most people aren’t interested.
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….
This is a great five-minute video from Rob Paterson. Chris Corrigan and Rob compare a meadow next to a ploughed field. It’s a pretty compelling metaphor for the difference between
Charlie Beckett POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Embracing Uncertainty: diplomacy and disruption "Authority hates uncertainty. Big business and government feel safest when life is predictable and stable. Change implies
From an article in Business 2.0, an endorsement of blogging: Thanks to the combination of using a newsreader and plugging into a few good blogs (which then plug into more,
One more thought about ordinariness and its connection to the extraordinary arising from Reboot. Ben Hammersley is a lovely presenter the blogosphere’s answer to Eddie Izzard (what was the question?)
