Ken Thompson points to this LA Times article by Jeffrey Kluger about simplexity – how apparently inconsequential things can have major effects in systems.
I’m not one for jargon, but I quite like this word simplexity. I’m fascinated by the paradoxical power of the simple and the complex. I think we too often miss it favour of seeing the merely complicated. (More on that in this essay I wrote a few years ago.)
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
Andrew Sullivan quotes Tolstoy: It seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness
I’ve been reflecting on the day spent learning about the Relationships Foundation‘s new tool, the Relationship Health Audit. It’s based on a model of organisational relationships which looks at five
We’ve had more than a thousand downloads of our book Nothing is Written. Here’s a PDF: Nothing is Written. I hope you enjoy it!
Seth Godin joins in the debate on branding’s death – with what I think is a pretty good summary.
