I’d love to run a management course based entirely on lessons from Monty Python.
The subject of meetings could probably be covered simply with scenes from the Life of Brian. For example to cover the topic of action theatre (lectures on the importance of action that don’t really support action) I’d have to use this clip:
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.
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by a chain of which… some
Rob Paterson quotes William Manchester, describing why he jumped hospital ship to rejoin his wartime unit and face near-certain death: And then, in one of those great thundering jolts in
The other day I linked to Cath Richardson’s writeup about goodfornothing. In the last year, I’ve started to really appreciate the upside to not finishing things; we tend to assume
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years,
