My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do better to acknowledge we’re more like Homer Simpson.
Yep.
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Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Beyond heroic leadership
I’m running a new workshop with my friend Alan Moore. Crafting Beautiful Businesses is on 27 September in London. The words beauty and business sound an unlikely pairing. Business is
Robert Paterson's Weblog: The end of text books – the end to school?
Tom Guariello chatted to me about the notion of “driving change” in organisations and has just uploaded part 1 as a podcast. Neither of us really like the assumptions about
I just wanted to create a post that pulls together Viv’s and my thinking about the Three Tyrannies. These are a sort of shorthand we use to explore what leads
