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.
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.
Michael Herman blogs about IBM’s decision to waive enforcement on 500 patents making a useful distinction between patent right and patent enforcement. His summary: Patents and open source profit and
More thoughts on thinking and doing, and the power of creating conversation, citing a great entry by Brian Alger.
Clay Shirky has offered these perceptive tweets about the Occupy Wall Street protests. People complaining that #OWS don’t have coherent demands haven’t noticed that US response to the crisis isn’t
Rob has a couple of interesting posts up. He challenges how conversations about diversity reinforce stereotypes in particular of the white male. And he describes an approach to cancer screening
