Take a Moment to Decide
We often rush decisions just to escape uncertainty but that instinct can limit better outcomes. This article explores epoché, the practice of suspending judgement and how delaying commitment (without drifting) can lead to clearer thinking and smarter decisions.
AI literacy for Applied Improvisers
Applied improvisers face a choice: resist AI or engage with it. Developing practical AI literacy helps us understand its strengths, limits and risks, using it responsibly while keeping human judgement, presence and meaning-making at the centre of our work.
What do I know about marketing?
Kind associates sometimes tell me I’m good at facilitating, training, coaching, writing, inspiring projects and the like – but no one has ever mentioned an appreciation of my marketing prowess.
Read on for a few top-of-my-head chart contenders..
How to break your undesirable habits – Small steps on a disposable scaffold
I found a unique way to break one of my biggest habits. Find out how I achieved this and let me know in the comments below what you will put into place to make it easier to enjoy the changes you want in your life..
Creating the value of the in-person element
It’s all changing again. After two years or so with only one face-to-face session with real people in a real room, suddenly the diary increasingly features in-person events…
The Clovis Quadrant
What do you already know about success and failure?
Let’s explore four possible sequences…
Who decides what’s the New Normal?
What will our new normal look like? As we adjust to a world containing Covid19, there are many ideas about what’s going to be different and what will stay the same. Pre-Covid, life, more or less, went on. Then suddenly with the pandemic a significant number of interactions stopped or changed…
What this disruption means for the future – two confident predictions
Many of us are discovering new possibilities in lockdown and also wondering what the future might look like. We’re questioning the ways that we have been used to working all these years. Whether work simply stopped or was conducted exclusively from home, there was a sudden and unavoidable disruption.
Why you are losing out by irrational risk-aversion
We all love behavioural economics, right? Take for instance risk-aversion. The key insight in several of the books I’ve been perusing is that we tend to be risk-averse for gains..
What do you want to celebrate? Please, not mistakes!
There may be some good arguments for celebrating mistakes, but the fact that they lead on occasion to good outcomes is not one of them..
How our Small Stories add up to a Big Story
The biggest story is our view of the world. We might favour one political party (with their Big Story) because we like the sum of its policies (the Small Stories). Others, might accept the policies without further ado merely because they like the party.
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