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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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
I’ve been asked to speak at Blogging: A Real Conversation? on 28 June, which will be fun. Mostly because my general boredom with conferences is usually alleviated when I get
Instead of fearing absurdity, it’s possible to embrace it as a way of increasing creative confidence
Chris Corrigan emailed me in response to my post about the new book: Book should be called Blood from a Stone: a reluctant book on creative facilitation!… Plus blood from
According to legend, famed cellist Pablo Casals was asked, at the age of 93, why he continued to practice. He replied, “because I think I’m noticing an improvement.” Practice is
