I liked this thought, tweeted by EskoKilpi:
Poorly connected organizations always end up with simple dynamics and repetitive patterns. Highly interconnected organizations may exhibit patterns that can be described mathematically as edge of chaos dynamics.
I think this is why some people react with anxiety to the early stages of processes like Open Space: it doesn’t play out the simple patterns of the conventional hierarchy.
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.
Dave Pollard is one of the unique voices I’d never have heard but for the internet. He writes with tremendous passion intensity and bluntness. I remember him saying he was
Graham Hill in a comment to a previous post pointed me to another article by John Clippinger A Renaissance of the Commons. More first-rate brain food there. He kicks off
I was interested in the comments on Geoff Mulgan’s Observer piece aboutNESTA’s 50 Radicals project. This comment captures one of the themes of critics: The most significant thing about this
Jon Husband found an engaging post by Kevin Carson taking aim at the thesis of the book Who Moved my Cheese? If you enjoyed the Fetish of Change essay I
