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.
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
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
Matthew Parris fisks an ad for Poohbah jobs at the Department for Work and Pensions All require (the ad says) “strategic vision” the Disability Director being required to “lead and
I’ve never really warmed to the term “design thinking” so I agree with some of what Don Norman says here: Design Thinking: Useful Myth. Design thinking is a public relations
Thanks to Doc Searls for pointing to this excellent blast Enough with the Michael Jackson Crap. I don’t care if the audience eats this shit up. They’d eat up public
Seth asks about a Random Act of Madness. I reflect on one of my own and talk about metaphorically poking spiders in jam jars.
