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
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
I shot this in a single eight-minute take, which is in the spirit of an experience of Ralf Wetzel’s workshop, Leading from the Clown. Clown training is probably the deepest and most challenging work I’ve done. Enjoy.
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
The power of small gestures and noticing
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Somehow the sturm and drang over this has passed me by till this morning. Catching up on it all has been… FASCINATING!
Thanks to Tony Goodson for spotting this in The Observer: When one of Skinner’s rats pressed a lever, it was given a food pellet. By experiment Skinner then established that
So I’ve been in NZ for a week or so and here are a few observations about the place. 1. The first person I saw coming off the jetway in
