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.
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
Holding a mirror to experience
We’re bombarded with messages – can we create more space to think?
Stephen Adshead has a nice guest post here: Rationalise like Ford or empathise like Toyota?. He looks at risk management and what happens when rational thinking runs up against us
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile managenent that day. But as
On the BBC website they’ve been asking people to name their costliest mistake. I found it quite compelling, a little peak into people’s inner lives. Part of the fascination is
I found this BBC wildlife video stunning. It’s a time lapse film showing how creatures like starfish very slowly consume the body a dead seal on the ocean floor. You
