Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, in Good Business: Leadership, Flow and the Making of Meaning says this:
One of the key tasks of management is to create an organization that stimulates the complexity of those who belong to it.
It’s so tempting instead to write complicated rules that actually stifle people’s complexity. And it’s not just management that could do with remembering this, it’s all of us.
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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.
Managing in a world of uncertainty where people don’t live up to their stated values
My friends at Pipeline are doing a little barnraising on December 4th in the form of an event called Good for Nothing. A group of geeks tinkerers and ideas people
Hugh reports “blogging doubled stormhoek sales“. His analysis really resonated with me: What happened is that by interfacing with the blogosphere it fundementally changed how Stormhoek looked at treating their
With all this talk of looming battles or alliances between the behemoths of Google Microsoft, and various Media Empires let’s keep an eye out for the little guy. In which
Wade at AdPulp reports that Saatchi are suing a former employee for leaving and convincing 17 others to join him a few days later. Oh I think the creators of
