Neil Perkin recalls this bit of wisdom from Hugh Macleod:
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships that is why good ideas are always initially resisted.
I keep coming back to the feeling that many of these conversations about innovation in organisations are really more about power. Notions of “driving innovation” seem particularly confused about where it needs to lie.
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.
Another pithy post from Matt this time on Myers-Briggs and similar ways of classifying people. The more I am exposed to these tools, the more they remind me of MBTI
I enjoyed Nick Smith’s latest post Don’t just do Something Stand there! Here’s the nub of it but I recommend the whole thing. By valuing thinking over awareness we mistake
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about games and their relevance to organisations. Online gaming is massive and I’m intrigued by what these games provide that so engages their participants.
Knowing Lloyd Davis as I do, I think his grooming products videolog, trailered here, is going to be entertaining. Especially part 7.
