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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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
Oli Barrett has a great post remembering Robert Davies who a few months before his death wrote this: Our lives are all too short not to share what and who
I didn’t realise when I praised Robert Scoble the other day that I was stepping into a little internet firestorm. A couple of burning embers can be found in the
I spent last Thursday doing a teambuilding workshop using Improv. I’m still buzzing from it. Improv Rocks! Something very powerful happens to people when they engage in Improv activities. The
Collaboration Drives Human Evolution « Creativity & Innovation "Humans are not special because of their big brains. That’s not the reason we can build rocket ships–no individual can. We have
