Helen Walters scratches an itch I’ve long felt about design thinking:
A codified repeatable reusable practice contradicts the nature of innovation which requires difficult, uncomfortable work to challenge the status quo of an industry or, at the very least, an organization. Executives are understandably looking for tidy ways to guarantee their innovation efforts — but they’d be better off coming to terms with the fact that there aren’t any.
Hat tip: Lee Ryan
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
Beyond heroic leadership
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
What I’ve learnt from limiting my use of social media for three months….
James and I put in an appearance at the Market Research Society Conference in London yesterday. We gave a short talk about Blogging and listened in on an earlier session
Jennifer Rice first pointed to these stats on blogging a few days ago. Jennifer and I were chatting about them on the phone yesterday, and Robert Paterson highlights the same
An argument about not liking fish reveals the complexity of even a simple conversation
He’s a smart guy that Chris Corrigan. I loved his observation a propos Fast Company blogging on gossip: When I am working with organizations who complain that they have communication
