An instructive post by Mark Lloyd. His son is warned off using the term “brainstorming” – without being given the context. Mark does his homework and makes a great point.
Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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Disruption
I looked up the Love Police on youtube following a tip from Euan. Here they are visiting Canary Wharf to challenge amongst other things, the status of private security guards
30 December 2010
It’s the engagement, stupid
Dept of straws-in-the wind. Hugh is now working for Microsoft an organisation he’s been teasing, challenging and generally joshing for months now. Flattery is starting to look so twentieth-century, don’t
6 April 2007
Powerbook or Girlfriend?
Neil Turner points to Why a powerbook is better than a girlfriend. The table had me laughing out loud.
24 March 2005
Scoble vs PR firms
Archives: How Robert Scoble Compares to the Top PR Firms Interesting, if mischievous, comparison of Scoble’s web presence vs large PR firms, in which Scoble wins, hands down. Yeah I
11 January 2005