Tim Kastelle points out that people mostly don’t like new ideas.
Novelty disturbs and repels – no wonder it’s so hard to get our great new ideas across.
Machiavelli was in the same territory:
… nothing is more difficult than to introduce a new order. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new…
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
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
Chris Corrigan pointed me to this post by Bob Sutton: Evidence-Based Management Doesn’t Mean Just Quantitative Evidence. The post, and the comments added, make lots of sense to me. I
Greetings from Heathrow Terminal 3. I’m on my way over to New York for a week. Looking forward to some good converstions there. Not sure how much blogging you’ll get
Kathy Sierra writes about enchanting users. She’s talking about user interfaces on software but the idea stretches further. The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an
Antony Mayfield suggests ..digital tools and networks can be used to loosen clogged bureaucracies and ways of working. But if we don’t think about how they are being used don’t
