Jack/Zen makes a good point:
In many of the organizations I work in the overperforming criticize the underperforming and ultimately call for what’s considered the ultimate cure: “holding people accountable.” Just saying the words in a pathetically stern tone warms the hearts of vindicators. What’s curious is how the question is never, “How can we get better at helping these people succeed?”
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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Margaret Heffernan writes about leaders and wilful blindness. It’s a good piece pulling together many strands of research on the considerable downsides of having high-status leaders. Leaders of organizations inhabit
Andrew Sullivan quotes Simone Weil … those to whom destiny lends might perish for having relied too much upon it. It is impossible that they should not perish. For they
What’s A Download Worth? Part 1 – The MASSIVE Downloader… — Steve Lawson: Bass 2.0 — the soundtrack to the day you wish you'd had A good argument against the
Consumer Empowerment points to another Economist article relating to open source, partly inspired by Eric von Hippel ‘s Democratizing Innovation. It’s a pretty helpful summary of von Hippel’s arguments. Traditionally,
