I liked this article from Marketing Profs: The Worst Thing About Best Practices.
In brief:
They rarely work
It’s a follower’s strategy
Change comes from within
They don’t come with a manual
This is something I dwell on in my More Space chapter of which more to follow in due course.
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.
Thanks to Tom Asacker for emailing me a link to this essay by Margaret Wheatley: Disturb me please. Here is some of the introduction: It feels important to me to
I’ve just been reading Harrison Owen’s Wave Rider. He explores the notion that human systems are fundamentally self-organising with some interesting implications for how we view formal organisations. He refers
Here’s another report on the recent research on the limits of brainstorming (previously blogged here): How Group Dynamics May Be Killing Innovation. The underlying research suggests conventional brainstorms are less
Hugh prompts some thoughts on porosity (referencing this essay by Clay Shirky). I expand a little on the paradox of structure and freedom.
