Leap then look: How long is your “look first list”?
I’ve recently become intrigued by the phrase “leap then look” – a twist on...
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Tag: improvisation
Organisations = social improvisations. A lesson from Spongebob Squarepants
I’m a big advocate of the value that the skills of performance improvisation can bring to the corporate world and know many others that share this view. However, I find that many talented improvisers struggle to find the...
Read MoreThe demise of the curious question?
A consultant I know recently asked me to help him come up with an ‘icebreaker’ for a workshop he was running. He’d previously attended one of my ‘Working Live’ improvisation sessions and remembered...
Read MoreSay YES – because Everything’s an Offer
There’s always a lot of scaffolding in London. There’s less now than just before the Olympic games but there is still a lot. There are a lot of buildings to be refurbished, demolished, built or preserved and it is...
Read MoreOne person walks onto a bare stage: A helpful start point for Organisation Design?
You may be familiar with the swan analogy. You know, the one that people use to describe how their apparent calmness and gracefulness belies the amount of effort they are actually expending. It goes something along the lines...
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CPR for the imagination
I’ve always been slightly underwhelmed by innovation. That isn’t completely true...
Read MoreMeet Pluggy – My Creative Anchor
It was through an act of technological desperation that I discovered the power of a creative anchor! It was probably the tenth time that somebody had borrowed my iPhone charger without asking but this time my battery had died...
Read MoreCorporate gossip vs human interaction
I’ve written a couple of times before about Keith Johnstone, the theatre director who felt that the talented actors he worked with at the Royal Court didn’t look ‘real’ enough to believe. Through his creative experiments Keith...
Read MoreA lesson from my creativity mentor
Those of you that have seen my conference talks will know that my 5 year old daughter is my creativity mentor. A long time ago I too had those wonderful child-like qualities of an unbridled imagination and a belief that it was...
Read MoreWhen the concrete ends – you’ve arrived
I spent this weekend in the middle of nowhere, up a mountain in Spain with 50 other folk who hadn’t met each other before but who all had the shared intention of creating stuff – random stuff that would come from ideas we hadn’t...
Read MoreBe Obvious! Be Altered!
Be obvious – be altered! Since my two worlds of organisation consulting and improvisation started to overlap around 3 years ago I’ve drawn many lessons from the latter that have truly helped me in the former. At the core of...
Read MoreStrictly come shuffling – Bringing more improv into conference design
A new blog on designing conferences with more space for spontaneous conversation that I wrote for my lovely friends at Relume can be found here: http://challengerspirit.relume.co.uk/profiles/blogs/strictly-come-shuffling Do...
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