Posted by: Jo on: October 7, 2008
Life in the 21st century is a little grim
One of the pleasures of living in the UK is long commutes on overfull trains. I am not talking overcrowding Mumbai-style (aka Bombay) to be sure. But there is a more than 50-50 chance in the UK that I will find myself standing for an hour, or [...]
Posted by: Jo on: June 5, 2008
Starting with a simple framework
For the last year, I’ve been systematically reading around appreciative inquiry, positive psychology and the mytho-poetic tradition of leadership and I’m at a point where I can see commonalities in the way management, psychology anhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionismd literature approach leadership.
Corporate poet, David Whyte, makes a good argument that life cannot be reduced to [...]
Posted by: Jo on: March 14, 2008
Oh! I do like this expression. How do we solve large problems or answer large questions? Break the question into as many small questions as we can.
And if we are group or a family, do the same thing. Brainstorm the question and ask everyone to contribute, “two or three (neither more or less) specific [...]
Posted by: Jo on: February 24, 2008
I discovered Paulo Coelho this year. I am amazed I spent this long on this earth without finding his books.
His stories have mystical settings. By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept is about a woman and her childhood sweetheart who meet up again in their twenties to make a hard decision: [...]
Posted by: Jo on: February 11, 2008
Thanks to Jodee Bock for flagging this video of Billy Joel’s song: We didn’t start the fire! from Jasonrb07.
Indeed, the challenge is not who started the fire. When we are in blaming or one-up-man-ship mode, we are narrowing our lives horribly.
It would be an excellent exercise in so many contexts to put together a video [...]
Posted by: Jo on: January 22, 2008
Thanks to Jon Ingham, I had a look at a Melcrum report on employee engagement. 29% of employers who use a formal scheme to engage employees use appreciative inquiry. Will 29% of 25% is 8% - that is a lot of employers. That is the most welcome news of 2008.
Anyone else interested [...]
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