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Mark Earls has a good post on a cognitive bias that leads us to see conspiracy where they may only be a cock-up.

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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

Planning as drowning

Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges

Leadership as holding uncertainty

Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in

Concreting Complexity

I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big

The absurd

In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason

Rewriting history…

Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like

Who says fun is dangerous?

I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe

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

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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Just talking is not necessarily that simple

Nancy Dixon has a meaty post up about some of the things that undermine group conversations. I’m often inclined to say “can’t we just talk” when offered a complicated way

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Citizen participation

Chris Corrigan points to a collection of citizen participation resources, 63 approaches to helping groups converse and make decisions. I’m with Chris when he says “As a facilitator I mostly

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Structure and freedom

Dave Snowden has good post about putting tools in their place. The essence of his argument is this: If you pick up a tool and it fits your hand its

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Following the gourd

Regular readers will know there’s a parallel universe in which I run a management course based entirely on Monty Python. In the module on leadership this scene from Life of