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.
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.
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
A good article from the Market Research industry trade mag highlights some of the pitfalls of focus groups – how sometimes they reduce the sense of connection with the customer.
Barclays’ latest TV ad sets a new low standard for the bank. Davidreviews has a stream of it here. It’s a fantasy in which a young executive creates a debit
It’s been a bit quiet here lately because to be honest I have been a bit addicted to World of Warcraft this week. Still I feel better knowing Mr T
