Dave Snowden has a good line for metaphors about complexity and his latest based on a “magic roundabout” near Swindon, is a cracker.
Power, love and “cheap tricks”
Magic, relationship and changing status
Dave Snowden has a good line for metaphors about complexity and his latest based on a “magic roundabout” near Swindon, is a cracker.
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.

Hugh’s latest includes this observation: A few weeks ago I was having lunch with somebody very high up the global Digital Advertising foodchain. He was telling me about how once

Interesting research from Stanford suggests that exciting brands get more trusted after making mistakes and putting them right whilst more “sincere” brands start with more trust but lose it more easily. Perhaps the sensible interpretation is that second-guessing customers can be a waste of time!

johnmoore (no relation) is on the money commenting on the demise of Song: Hmm … the brand should never create the business … hmm. That’s exactly what I thought today

Keith Sawyer spots some research that looked at some famous “loner” creatives and found that their most creative periods coincided with less social isolation.