Obviously this is too simplistic.
But I have this question for anyone who’s got some process to manage human beings in organisations. You know the sort of thing… a process to set and manage coaching; a format for efficient meetings; a form for 360 feedback, an assessment “tool” for interviews.
Does this process bear any resemblance to how you actually relate, in your own life, to anyone whom you love? (eg how you chose your spouse, how you treat your children etc etc)
And if not, why not?
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.
Alan Singer continues to agitate for the release of Schapelle Corby an Australian women charged with drug trafficking under highly questionable grounds in Indonesia. He has pretty much given over
Michael Ledeen suggests suggests the protest movement in Iran is following the model of the starfish from the book The Starfish and the Spider. If you decapitate a spider it
If You’re an Expert Can You Flip a Coin? « Tales From the Hood Some interesting pushback on the recent story in HuffPo Russia in color, a century ago –
David McRaney has a great post on survivorship bias. It includes the story of the US Air Force in WWII trying to figure out where to add armour to their bombers
