My pal and business partner James Cherkoff has a pithy little post on control and dealing with not having it.
But yes the rules are different and this is – maybe – where the problems and the fears arise. If you are a stellar brand which has always had the pulling power of a small super nova what do you do when someone says gravity has been reversed and that your satellites are drifting away to a new cosmos? You boil over and try to change it all back.
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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
… means “a profound sense of caring [for] others and a desire to improve the world,” according to Wiktionary. I can’t pronounce it, but I’ll have some, please. See Tom
Chris Corrigan reports on the Dalai Lama talking about opening and closing.
I like MovableType (the software I blog with), and I like Six Apart, the guys who created it. It’s a good piece of software and it has a great support
David Wilcox produced this excellent video report on people’s involvement in their neighbourhoods. It features community organiser Jim Diers who was in London recently. Kevin Harris also wrote about Jim’s
