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
James and I put in an appearance at the Market Research Society Conference in London yesterday. We gave a short talk about Blogging and listened in on an earlier session
As someone prone to thinking of my body as a machine to carry my brain around I’m excited by articles about embodied cognition – like this one featuring Art Glenberg.
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
The Simple Software That Could — but Probably Won't — Change the Face of Writing – James Somers – Technology – The Atlantic For me, the software bit is less
