Reader favorites
Based on the extremely limited data I get and the emails I receive, the most enduringly popular posts here are the procedural items or how-tos. For me, these are marked by the curse of knowledge: I forget that they’re useful to people, even as I refer to them or use them myself.
Premortem: before starting a new project, learn why it will end in failure
A simple method for uncovering big, ‘undiscussable’ risks to a project.
Brian Kerr
3-step method for learning anything
See one, do one, teach one ← That’s the method.
Brian Kerr
4 favorite Liberating Structures for continuous improvement
Getting specific about facilitation methods & how to incorporate them into the work.
Brian Kerr
My favorite posts
I can tell you my favorite things to share are those where I’ve gone into some asinine rabbit hole.
Vanishing fish, boiling frogs & the dry bed of the sea
Making sense of ‘shifting baseline syndrome’ in the world & in the workplace.
Brian Kerr
On doing more with less
More what? Less what? 90 years ago, Bucky Fuller gave his answer. There is a different one now.
Brian Kerr
On ‘undiscussables’ 45 years later: still here, still bad & somehow even worse
Revisiting Argyris’ ‘undiscussables’ as emergent, unwanted behaviors & as features of organizational control. Keeping courage, showing kindness.
Brian Kerr
(I guess I also denote these with a photo of a sunset over the sound. My favorite view for my favorite topics?)
My favorite page
Quote barn
Remember when we could make web pages about topics we liked or collecting material we found interesting? Welcome to the quote barn: a tossed-off joke realized. It is a web page with a barn full of quotations.
Brian Kerr
My favorite reader
is you.