Flat-pack development. The tyranny of lists.
Lists are compelling. Especially those associated with our own personal development. ...
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Tag: change
The man who loved dragons. When rhetoric meets reality.
Once upon a time there was a man who loved dragons. He had pictures of dragons on every wall of...
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Org charts and the Underground: The map is not the territory
I’m a fan of London and one of my favourite activities in the city is to walk. I try to walk everywhere if at all possible and it is through many years of doing this that I’ve got to know how the different parts of the city join up.
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From the Subs Bench to the Olympic Ice – How the present moment changes everything
I admit to not knowing very much at all about Turkish football. However, I recently heard a story...
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Organisations = social improvisations. A lesson from Spongebob Squarepants
I’m a big advocate of the value that the skills of performance improvisation can bring to...
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Boiling Cabbage – the pitfalls of being overly reductionist
Imagine you go to a party. You spend the evening chatting with old friends and meeting new...
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Corporate gossip vs human interaction
I’ve written a couple of times before about Keith Johnstone, the theatre director who felt that...
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Behind the mask – a short story about identity, status and dressing up as a 6′ 5″ lion
Around 2 years ago I decided to say “Yes” more to ensure that I regularly step out of my comfort...
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Be Obvious! Be Altered!
Be obvious – be altered! Since my two worlds of organisation consulting and improvisation started...
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Strictly come shuffling – Bringing more improv into conference design
A new blog on designing conferences with more space for spontaneous conversation that I wrote for...
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Obsessing about furniture!
I seem to spend a lot of my time, whilst designing workshops or group sessions, thinking about...
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Long-form Organisation Development
A slightly longer blog this week to explore some slightly longer ideas! A couple of weeks back I...
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