My friend Jeremy Sweeney offered this simple idea in a conversation. We keep designing human systems on the assumption that we (and others) are like Mr Spock. We might do better to acknowledge we’re more like Homer Simpson.
Yep.
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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.
Stuart Reid made a great comment about an improv workshop on his Facebook page today. The big difference between a) going into a scene thinking I’ll be the funny one
My friend Oli London’s-most-sociable-entrepreneur” Barrett has been thinking about the widespread enthusiasm for instant solutions – very much evident in crazed proposals for dealing with knife crime here in the
Chris Corrigan regularly reminds me of why I admire his work. Here’s the latest reason. Today I ran into an interesting situation. I was in a conversation about a community
Matthew Syed has a powerful article in The Guardian highlighting the toxic effects of blame on organisations. A bureaucratic over-reaction to errors is hugely counter-productive. Too much rigidity in pursuit
