Do you remember that in classical times when Cicero had finished speaking the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, ‘Let us march”.
Adlai Stevenson via E J Dionne by way of 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.
Marketing too often just gets in the way of relationships. Two recent examples illustrate the point…
I found this quote in Phil Dourado‘s admirably snappy free book chapter for February. Leadership is emotional. Leadership deals with feelings. Leadership is made up of dreams inspiration excitement desire,
GeekMedia: Record Companies Bands and the concept of value Good analysis of how the old business model of the music industry fails artists. I didn't realise how Spotify's business is
Viv pointed me to this lucid post at the Skeptics Dictionary: The Forer Effect. The Forer effect refers to the tendency of people to rate sets of statements as highly
