Here’s a great TED talk by Stuart Brown on the serious importance of play. The opening story about how a polar bear and husky opt for play instead of predation is pretty amazing. And I loved these lines: “nothing lights up the brain like play” and “the opposite of play is not work it’s depression”.
Hat tip David Smith’s daily feed
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.
Nice post by Robert Paterson looking at New Bedford as a historically successful “knowledge community”. Minus all the fancy jargon.
I enjoyed Matthew Stewart’s polemic against management education in The Atlantic. He recounts his success in management based on a mixture of philosphy and… winging it. After I left the
Piers Young spots an interesting article in Wired: Roads Gone Wild. Here’s some of Piers’ summary… The trouble with traffic engineers is that when there’s a problem with a road
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
