Mark pointed to this the other day: Henry Mintzberg on Beyond Selfishness. I agree with almost all of it. I especially liked this table of two ways to manage – a simplification of course, but a good one.
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.
You may have come across the term security theatre, to describe, as Bruce Schneier puts it, “countermeasures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing actually to
Seth spotted this ad for troubled American Airlines: and comments Let’s say you run an airline with a horrible cost structure and you’re facing bankruptcy on an almost daily basis.
That thing where you have this really meaty topic you want to write about. It’s so meaty that you think it will need a really long post. So you never
James has posted a bit more info about our planned workshop Johnnie Moore and I are holding Open Sauce workshops in London for companies interested in exploring marketing in a
