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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Magic, relationship and changing status
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.
Being Reasonable: The Blog > Trashing the MBA Marc Babej looks at an Ad Age artilce suggesting MBAs might be a liability in marketing departments. (tags: marketing management) —–
.. is new one on me. It’s a euphemism for the famous “feedback sandwich”. I prefer the third option which you can find in this engaging post on the Castleton
I read this in an email from Greg Hohn, a fellow member of the Applied Improv Network. I would summarize my approach simply by saying that I try to focus
And on the subject of love… if you can spare five minutes go read Jeff Risley’s post I can only imagine. In fact, go read it even if you can’t
