As I’ve been thinking/ranting about the limits of keynote presentations I realise that (as ever) the Pythons got there first. Keynoters love to think that they can just pour their thinking into our willing heads. But even the most gifted orator’s message is going to be disrupted by the reality of the moment-by-moment distractions among the audience.
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.
This whole intelligent design vs evolution debate has been on my mind lately. There’s a fascinating post by Steve Anderson at HuffPo, relating an interview between Der Spiegel and philosopher
Chris Corrigan spotted this thought from Dave Pollard. It’s about having ideas and “making ideas happen”: …the responsibility for implementing is left to each person to accept or not. If
The Alternative University | OliBarrett.com Oli Barrett does some rethinking of the univeristy experience which is starting to look very overpriced for a lot of people love takes over where
Jake Cook profiles a couple of the folks at IDEO and concludes that Big innovation lives right on the edge of ridiculous ideas. They cite Stewart Brown’s idea that the
