Rambling thoughts on models
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
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Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
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Rewriting history…
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Who says fun is dangerous?
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Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
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I enjoyed Viv’s post describing how she uses video clips to inspire participants in her workshops to think differently about facilitation. She says she was partly inspired by the Phoric
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The perils of efficiency
When I’m talking about facilitation, I often find myself saying that the effort to be efficient is what makes meetings inefficient. By setting agendas which assume that groups of people
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Organising for flow?
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Change and frustration
This diagram[1] pops up in my social streams from time to time. I grabbed it from this site. It aims to show that you must have five elements in place
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