Monthly Archives: May, 2008
Lechyd Da!
The very lovely people of The Eastlake Group invited me to speak at an event for their customers and prospects. Given that they specialise in creating effective working spaces for their clients, they’d had the great idea to hold the event not in a conference centre or hotel meeting room, but in the shell of [...]
In Shanghai
I’ve been in Shanghai, working in a hotel which was, apparently, the home of Shanghai’s Gangster No 2 early last century. Given the photos of him around the walls, holding court with the statesmen, politicians, actors and business people of his day, he was clearly a very popular guy. Or maybe he was very persuasive.
Monday [...]
Theatre 3: Existentialists R Us
I’ll add a third reason to CW’s list of reasons all business people should have a substantial theatre experience as part of their development. It’s about the customer. That the customer pays our salaries is the truism that many businesses use to sell the idea that serving the customer well is a good idea. So [...]
Theatre 2: Play works
In the rehearsal room.
You should see what happens when grown adults learn to play again. When judgement is let go of, and is replaced by ‘what about?’ and ‘what if?’ and ‘let’s try it, see what happens’.
Theatre 1: Two Huge Lessons for Business?
I’ve been given the great opportunity to work in a theatre again, eighteen years after I last stepped foot in one as a creative participant rather than an audience member. It has been wonderful.
On one level, the project was a teambuilding one. Richard Jacobs of Yes asked me to help him out with a client [...]
Conversation at Work
My belief is that the great untapped potential of Organisational Development is how people talk to each other: what they say, what they don’t say, and how the nature and quality of their conversations creates the ‘field’ which they then say they ‘experience’. The challenge is that this field is a result of the talking, [...]
What works? This Works…
On the verge of our move, and in the midst of what might be seen as my second mid-life crisis, I am in the wondrous, glorious, precious position of being able to stand where I am and look back at my life to date as an OD consultant and reflect on what, above all else, [...]
A collection of some older material
…all sorts of stuff, really
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