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April 17, 2018

Flat-pack development. The tyranny of lists.

Lists are compelling.  Especially those associated with our own personal development.  And even though I think that, deep down, we know most of the lists..
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November 28, 2017

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 his house.  He had dragon..
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January 12, 2015

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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March 19, 2013

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 on the radio about the footballer Ilhan..
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December 9, 2012

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 the corporate world and know many others that share..
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November 12, 2012

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 friends. You eat, drink and dance. You exchange..
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September 18, 2012

Corporate gossip vs human interaction

I’ve written a couple of times before about Keith Johnstone, the theatre director who felt that the talented actors he worked with at the Royal..
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September 12, 2012

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 zone and into my experimental..
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May 21, 2012

Be Obvious! Be Altered!

Be obvious – be altered! Since my two worlds of organisation consulting and improvisation started to overlap around 3 years ago I’ve drawn many lessons..
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May 19, 2012

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 my lovely friends at Relume can be found here:..
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March 9, 2012

Obsessing about furniture!

I seem to spend a lot of my time, whilst designing workshops or group sessions, thinking about furniture. In fact, the room, the environment, the..
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February 23, 2012

Long-form Organisation Development

 A slightly longer blog this week to explore some slightly longer ideas!  A couple of weeks back I had the privilege of spending the weekend..
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February 16, 2012

Taking our own experiencing seriously

I’m often asked the question “How do you apply x to your work?” and have long found the question strangely puzzling.  I think part of..
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January 1, 2012

So can scorpions smoke?

My Masters dissertation on improv in business was entitled “Can Scorpions Smoke?” – a question that came from a particularly blank moment I had in..
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