Dave Snowden points to the Lifecycle of a Silver Bullet. It’s a painfully accurate description of how management fads get created.
It prompted me to reread my own story about management secrets involving a consultant and a milliepede.
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
So I was visiting the BBC yesterday as you do. There was a bit of hoopla going on in reception where a man in a T shirt periodically called out
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I go, thinking again, but I
It’s become a kind of truism these days that we all need to get more forgiving about making mistakes. Perhaps what needs more attention is noticing that we may have
Malcolm Gladwell Is #Wrong: Change Observer: Design Observer "Malcolm Gladwell's take on social media is like a nun's likely review of the Kama Sutra — self-righteous and misguided by virtue
