Daniel Wolpert’s TED talk explores the exponential nature of tit for tat (or eye for an eye). We underestimate the force we generate when striking others. So when we think we retaliate in kind, the other experiences it as an escalation. They return with greater force and so it goes on. He’s talking about physical force but it applies to insults too, I reckon.
Which explains a heck of a lot about human conflict.
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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
Jennifer Rice responds to my blog on Employee Engagement, sparking further thoughts about the purpose of marketing – I suggest it needs to break out of trap of focusing only on customers.
Rob’s got an excellent and provocative post on the state of the world. Here’s his opening: I find what is going on with our financial system right now a bit
Just want to point to this lucid article by my friend John Wenger: transformational learning. If someone wanted to learn something like ‘how to have a difficult conversation with a staff
