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.)
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
That’s often the best way to deal with bloggers who criticise you. Talk to them. I just commented to Hugh sometimes rudeness is just an angry person’s way of saying
A few months ago I chatted to Liam Mulhall who was doing some Open Source marketing for his Blowfly beer. Now (via Jake McKee) I see Vores Øl taking it
I pretty much always enjoy management writers/gurus when they are dismantling other gurus’ signature achievements. This from Steve Denning is a thoroughly well argued debunking of the whole ghastly “shareholder
