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Farson revisited

9 November 2005

I was searching back through this blog this morning and stumbled on someting I wrote back in May 2004 about Richard Farson. It’s such a great insight that I’m going to shamelessly repeat it and add a new riff. It strikes a deep chord with me. In Management of the

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Responsibility + Helplessness

26 April 2024

continuing to explore monarchy vs mesh

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Citizens of facilitation

4 July 2022

Applying ideas of fellow citizenship in training and facilitation

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Not chasing outcomes

22 September 2016

One of the joys of working with Viv is seeing how she can strip back processes to what feel like essentials. It’s not often I work with someone who can match me for wanting to simplify things – I think we both believe we should let the participants do complex

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Playing with nonsense

15 December 2013

Alex Sternick has some great insights on the value of absurdity, including the arresting thought the nonsense can be a path to meaning. it includes a reference to a little study that suggested reading an absurd story increases our mental capacity for recognising patterns. He also suggests that developing a greater

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It ain’t that simple

29 October 2012

Chris Rodgers pours cold water on the idea of evidence-based practice when managing people. Organizations are complex social processes not rational scientific endeavours. As such, they are not amenable to the research and testing protocols needed to provide rigorous ‘evidence’ of the merit of a particular practice. Or to justify

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What do we mean by people skills?

14 September 2012

I’m rereading Richard Farson’s Management of the Absurd. So much of his argument, especially in the earlier chapters, resonates strongly with me. Gaining skills in planning, organizing and scheduling no doubt improves the performance of managers. It is when we attempt to apply skills to the most challenging area of

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More absurdity

6 September 2012

Here’s another succinct insight from Richard Farson’s Management of the Absurd: Many supposed communication problems are actually balance-of-power problems. That is why it probably is unwise to introduce completely open communication into a situation in which there is a large disparity in power. The unintended but damaging result is to

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The absurd

6 September 2012

In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason to keep all those volumes, but getting rid of them made me think they were actually a burden. And by having just a few, it’s

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Training or education?

26 February 2010

So I just posted about the pitfalls of treating complex change as if it is merely complicated. I see this happening on a smaller scale in areas like training and development. Workshops get reduced to a series of trite “deliverables” stripping the subject of its richness and – in my

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