
Links & notes for 2023-11
This month: 4 articles and an online course.
This month: 4 articles and an online course.
3 articles, a case study, 2 books, and an upcoming event.
What comes after “now that I see it” & why you need to hear it as early as possible.
Noticing at work. Noticing on the cushion. And noticing while out and about. These three are related, but I am still figuring out how.
The things I do before I do anything, and why they’re worth the effort.
Each moment prefigures the next. But in certain moments, a huge change can begin.
Instead of drawing a box around the problem, tether it to something important.
Why Liberating Structures & lean make a great combo.
Being a hearing-impaired person whose job is to listen. Quiet, noise, and rest.
You’ve gathered everyone together around a problem. Now what?
Write to dispel the curse of knowledge, to find your people, and to become.
Resistance to change is precious. Here’s how to make the most of it.
More of what? Less of what? 90 years ago, Bucky Fuller had a very different answer.
A simple method for uncovering big, “undiscussable” risks to a project.
The consulting advice that made me a better person (and a more effective consultant).
Planning for a facilitated event involves being ready to throw the plan away.
Facilitation
A strategy method that gets right at the good stuff.
Continuous improvement
What I've learned from the hourglass and the snake.
Facilitation
Identify a purpose, rational aim, and experiential aim—quick action with a huge effect.
Continuous improvement
Why it’s better to have an impossible goal than a goal you meet-and-exceed every time.
Continuous improvement
Time to fix problems at the source rather than tolerate awful behavior.
Continuous improvement
“By what method?” ... “To what end?”
Learning
“Every idea should have a URL, bonus points if one does not have to make the URL oneself.”
Continuous improvement
Back to basics with the Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle.
Learning
Cycling through your main point helps your audience. Here’s how.
Continuous improvement
John Madden and Ed Catmull get me through a tough week.
Facilitation
“What did you notice?”
Learning
Try out your guesses; write them down.
Continuous improvement
Would you rather have five half-cooked pancakes or two good ones?
Facilitation
What's the use of a crowd?
Continuous improvement
“We send our hypotheses ahead, an expendable army, and watch them fall.”
Continuous improvement
Nobody wants to hear it from the consultant.