Conferences that work
Posted by nynke in New information on December 2nd, 2009
New Book!
You can find out more at www.conferencesthatwork.com, which offers five free chapters, a condensed introduction to peer conferences, a blog, and free downloads of many supporting resources.
Check it out, Adrian loves to get feedback!
Thank you Pyxis and Agile Tour Bordeaux
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on October 31st, 2009
I have just returned from a sponsored run of two Ship Of Fools organisational sculpting sessions. Thank you Agile Tour Bordeaux and Pyxis Paris. If it hadn’t been for you this would not have been possible.
For more information … Loot at Agile Tour Bordeaux!
Focus on hating overhead
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 28th, 2009
The Hate
Lots of people have told me how they hate meetings, interruptions and administrative overhead at work. And on the internet you don’t really have to search long to find excellent blog articles like meetings and why I hate them. Not only the time and energy spent in meetings that do not seem to produce [...]
Key patterns for making your business fail
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 25th, 2009
This is a growing list of patterns to learn from for unfolding business wings:
Put profit over value. In the ever faster running war-work-western-culture-machine, your customers value their (recreation) time the most. You can use this to gain profit. For example, if your complaints department only opens in one location, and only between 10 and 11 [...]
How to make the worst entrance ever!
Posted by nynke in Complaints with recommendations, Puzzles and rumors on August 19th, 2009
Your entrance makes a statement. In this case I am aiming for some experimentation with the five controlled folly principles.
Wear an outfit that makes you feel uncomfortable. As I personally don’t care too much about clothes, I needed a trick here. The best way I have found is to wear clothes that are totally inappropriate [...]
The five principles of controlled folly
Posted by nynke in Puzzles and rumors on August 15th, 2009
Arrr, so ye be wantin’ t’ go to sea. Then ye best be learnin’ t’
1. Mask yer captainliness: Ignore an event or a key, then freeze bein’ absolutely surprised when its effects upset yer life, then blame th’ energy.
2. Do nay confore: Expect energy, wait fer ‘t, surrender yersef t’ ‘t, then keel haul others, [...]
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or is there?
Posted by nynke in New information on August 10th, 2009
The gains of controlled folly are tremendous. A sculpt can generate large amounts of useful data for laying a sound basis for a long term program of work on key organisational issues. The only restrictions are our imagination, skills, and abilities.
… and there is no such thing as a free lunch!
I knew it! There’s [...]
Gathering the crew for an alpha run
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on August 9th, 2009
At European Consultants Camp we did an alpha run of the Ship of Fools sculpt. This to gather some very recent images for kick-starting integrated pull-marketing of the controlled folly service, gaining critical feedback from excellent colleagues familiar with and skilled in facilitating Satir concepts, and gathering a crew for causing another “congruence meme” wave.
Run [...]
Original idea Ship of Fools
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on August 9th, 2009
Inspiration is not born in a vacuum; excellent ideas are seeded by other excellent ideas and fertilized by still more excellent ideas.
Controlled folly was originally re-designed from the balancing act, to support consultants coaching executive teams and managers. The demand was taken from the AIM UAW alliance executive coaching webpage, and from exchanges with Peter [...]
