Jack Zen has an intriguing post linking John Wayne’s teeth to thoughts about leadership or rather our delusions about it. He offers this thought which I like, at least I like the practice it relates to. I’ll take a pass on how it’s labelled.
In all of the communities I’m working with around the country more and more people get that leader is convener of new conversations. Period.
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.
Sig has a good post mischievously citing this from a post by Gartner …the hidden costs of unstructured processes: although a lot of focus of BPM efforts (time and money)
Jeff Risley recommends the podcasts of Alan Watts. So do I. I’ve just listened to the first of four on the theme “Limits of Language”. I think we easily lose
Just at “technical debt” weighs down software, so does emotional debt for teamwork among humans
Viv has spotted a fascinating article from the New Scientist: Your clever body: Thinking from head to toe (paywalled). Here’s a snippet from the opening: We tend to view the
