I’ve just had an article published in Argent (the Journal of the Financial Services Forum). Mutualism begins at home (pdf) is part of a special feature on Mutualism. In this piece I share some Improv exercises intended to bring the idea of mutualism to life as an experience not as a theory. Enjoy.
UPDATE: If you want to do the face drawing exercise online, check out GE’s Imagination Cubed – thanks to Marc Orchant for the tipoff.
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
This HBR post attempts to evaluate Obama’s record on change management based on a four step model. I’m instinctively wary of models and this one strikes me as typically trite
Well, I’ve laid off Lovemarks for a few weeks now so it’s good to see Hugh at Gaping Void taking up the cudgels. Advice to marketeers: Stop worrying whether people
Ton Zijlstra has done an eloquent blog Every Signal Starts Out As Noise. He argues, provocatively, Why do we call information and data coming to us noise? Because we know
Like Nicholson emailed me a link to this interesting case study in user-led branding. The cease-and-desist part gets very postmodern I think. Brandjacking Burger King on Twitter – Lessons Learned
