The title of Bob Sutton’s latest post makes lots of sense to me:
Most claims of originality are testimony to ignorance and most claims of magic are testimony to hubris.
I share his weariness of efforts to radically “reinvent leadership”.
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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
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
Stowe Boyd: Unconferences: But Aren’t There More Dimensions? Stowe has some interesting thoughts about the idea of unconferences – efforts to get away from the general mediocrity of traditional top-down
Jasper Fox gives an interesting presentation on his experience of flipping the classroom. There are some great ideas in here and you get a real sense of his dedication to
Jonah Lehrer has a good article in the New Yorker The Eureka Hunt (pdf) looking at research on what happens inside our heads when we come up with sudden insights.
Lauren Collister defends emoticons and various other bits of linguistic shorthand against those who insist on the sanctity of language. I know I can be a language pedant tut-tutting the
