It’s easy for meetings to lapse into Management Porn. The real life of the organisation can’t be reached if we stay there.
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Don’t panic
Managing anxiety is a familiar challenge for facilitators.
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Hamlet and meeting absurdity
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
Leading from the clown
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.
Embodied thinking vs slippery AI
A casual conversation in a pub makes me pay attention to thinking being embodied
Playing with eye contact
Creating eye contact despite the limits of Zoom and Teams
Noticing
The power of small gestures and noticing
Facilitation antlers
Exploring the inner dialogue of facilitation
Small p presence
Getting away from grandiosity or solemnity. small p presence is about being open to the life around us
Small i improv
Facilitation is often about small, subtle acts of noticing and experimenting
Through boring to beautiful
Beyond heroic leadership
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How Southwest apologise
Nice article from the NY Times: Airlines Learn to Fly on a Wing and an ApologyNo airline accepts blame quite like Southwest Airlines, which employs Fred Taylor Jr. in a
18 March 2007
The dangers of expertise
Andrew Rixon examines the paradox of bringing in the expert through a Nasrudeen story. It’s a tricky thing employing experts: the temptation is to go into a childlike pose and
24 April 2012
No more grand narrative?
After Sean let fly at the market research business I’m pleased to see Piers doing the same for the trendspotters. For me, there’s a message linking both: can we get
6 February 2008
Ah, that’s what I wanted to say
The value of what students do resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness not in the greater strain it imposes. John Dewey, quoted here by Alfie Kohn.
1 April 2007