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.
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.
I just watched the online vid styled as a public service announcement for the advertsing creative skills of Marc and Tom. Thousands of advertising creatives are out of work… they
Rich from Hello World in South Africa adds a nice riff to yesterday’s post on Miles Davis. He relates the idea of improvising to service recovery, recalling his days as
I was having a chat about faciliation with Rob Paterson on Skype and he came up with the analogy of dressage. If you watch this (amazing) Youtube of a horse
I’ve been experimenting with Skype software that let’s you make phone calls over the net. Quite impressive and completely free (for the time being). I’ve had several chats with Tony
