Neil Perkin recalls this bit of wisdom from Hugh Macleod:
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships that is why good ideas are always initially resisted.
I keep coming back to the feeling that many of these conversations about innovation in organisations are really more about power. Notions of “driving innovation” seem particularly confused about where it needs to lie.
A funny game illustrates what we may be missing in many of our meetings
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
Renee Hopkins Callahan does a nice round up of bloggers’ views on ghostwritten executive blogs. My two cents: I try to avoid inventing too many rules for blogging – I
James Gardner left his bank job a few weeks ago to work for the DWP. It may be my imagination but it seems his blogging has become spunkier since then.
A Networked World: Complexity Beyond Belief Earl Mardle shares a story “that quietly boggles my mind. It shows as well the staggering flexibility of the human brain and the mind
Last week Annette Clancy Matt Moore and I had a conversation about the shadow side of organisations. Sometimes when people talk about the shadow it conjures up a scary idea
