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.
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.
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
Chris Carfi identifies the money quote in Erik Keller’s article Pushing a “Pull Model” “Now this approach may be seen as foolhardy by those who believe that products are always
New Statesman – What they say and what they mean Funny and largely true Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change « Thought-provoking My favourite is '9.
Adrian Trenholm is guest blogging at 173drurylane.com and kicks off by asking what will Sainsbury’s do with Jamie Oliver?
This is another extract from Viv’s and my new book, Nothing Is Written (free to download). In Monty Python’s Life of Brian the eponymous antihero is fleeing a brigade of
