My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do better to acknowledge we’re more like Homer Simpson.
Yep.
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A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
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
Feelings of Knowing : The Frontal Cortex Why humans can (sometimes) beat a computer at quiz games – because we can feel we know an answer to a question before
I’m not a fan of jargon but I do have a soft spot for “disintermediation”. It’s what happens to industries where a middleman is rendered obsolete by innovation. It has
Freddie Daniells has a good post In the Spring issue of the Marketing Society’s Market Leader magazine, David Cowan of Forensics, a strategic growth consultancy writes: Marketing’s proximate mission must
Alan Moore has a good post on New Balance which has achieved great sales without much of the marketing hype normally associated with the training shoe sector. Here’s a snippet:
