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
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.
More wisdom courtesy of Chris Corrigan. I actually think that muddling through is not a correction to the conventional wisdom that stretegy and planning is the way to go. Muddling
Dave Snowden writes about A General Theory of Love highlighting this passage: Because mammals need relatedness for their neurophysiology to coalesce correctly, most of what makes a socially functional human
There are moments when I get really excited by an unexpected byproduct of my own blog. One such happened a week ago when I met Sam Clements. Sam found me
The excellent elearningpost blog pointed me to Thinker. It’s an interactive site exploring how we think. Some great stuff there.
