Shawn Callahan at Anecdote links to a video presentation on complexity by Michael Crichton. Sean highlights these quotes:
To learn how to manage complex systems takes humility.
To manage complex systems takes the ability to admit we are wrong and to change course.
If you manage a complex system you are frequently if not always wrong.
Fascinating stuff.
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.
I’ve been having a few conversations recently with Adriana. She’s been doing a lot of heavy conceptual thinking about where the web is taking us. It’s hard to keep up
I’ve been reading this: The Group Unconscious: A Synthesis Paper (pdf), which its author Alok Singh shared with me. It’s real brain food and not a light read but it
Thanks to Tim Kitchin for emailing me to say that Zopa‘s website is up and running. Tim says in his mail: I am proud to be peripherally connected to this
Dave Pollard is one of the unique voices I’d never have heard but for the internet. He writes with tremendous passion intensity and bluntness. I remember him saying he was
