Daniel Wolpert’s TED talk explores the exponential nature of tit for tat (or eye for an eye). We underestimate the force we generate when striking others. So when we think we retaliate in kind, the other experiences it as an escalation. They return with greater force and so it goes on. He’s talking about physical force but it applies to insults too, I reckon.
Which explains a heck of a lot about human conflict.
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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 good chapter in The Wisdom of Crowds discusses decision-making in organisations. The only reason to organize thousands of people to work in a company is if together they can
I’m cream crackered (Baffled Americans see this explanation) It’s been a good week and I’ve been “on-stage” for more of it that I’m used to. Quite a lot of facilitiation
I’ll be running an Open Evening on 22 March at 5pm along with my colleagues at The Clarity Partnership. The theme is The Elephant Under the Table. We’ll be exploring
John Porcaro’s blog “Customer Schmustomers” provokes me to challenge the empty rhetoric of customer satisfaction and argue that too often it produces falseness and sycophany. Real satisfaction is not given by one person to another, but created between them.
