..is the theme of Rob Paterson’s post Indulgences – The Reformation – Our Time. Serious thought provocation.
February 2025 update
People have been facilitated before: boredom, stillness, recovering attention and the undercurrents of life
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The value of not always saying something helpful
Beyond writing
Writing stuff down can easily remove us from practical reality and suppress our intuition
Inauthentic marketing: case study
An example of inauthentic direct mail, from Lincoln Financial Group. The elements that eat away at the credibility of the sender and the effect on this reader.
The individual transcends the bland…
BA stewardess Claire breaks the corporate ice and creates real engagment. Hats off to BA is their culture supports this sort of thing.
Customer-centricity: is it the answer?
Michael Hammer’s new book, The Agenda, is about the rise of customer power. But is customer-centricity really such a good model for business and society?
Authenticity: you can’t fake it
Thanks (again) to John Porcaro for linking me to the Customer Evangelists’ blog where I found this: OLD SCHOOL: Ad agency pays teen bloggers to
In praise of um… er….. deeper meaning
Once again, it turns out that what we do naturally has more value than we realise; whereas clever contrivances intended to “improve” our effectiveness often just destroy significance… and make us less well understood! A good lesson for all those presentation trainers and “image consultants” out there!
Follies of ranking
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human
Values – ideal or real
I am blogging from my friend Thomas’s office in Essex. All around are those inspirational posters… eg “PERSISTENCE Now that we’ve exhausted all possibilities… let’s
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Podcast: Viv McWaters
This morning I recorded a podcast with Viv McWaters. Viv’s a fellow facilitator and we shot the breeze about a few common interests. Download the Podcast (30m, 10.5 MB) Podcast
26 February 2009
In search of mediocrity
When I was finishing at Oxford my annoyingly self-confident peers were pretending to agonise. Should they work as monstrously overpaid consultants, or… monstrously overpaid bankers? Those whose greed inspired them
29 March 2012
Persona?
I was doing some coaching work recently where I talked about how easy it is to adopt a behaviour and make it into an identity or a persona. All well
22 September 2007
Are we having fun yet?
The brilliant Bernie de Koeven has posted a poem about fun and about what sort of fun we want. This bit particularly caught my eye: Like the kinds of fun
13 September 2010
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