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High Energy Groups vs Low Energy Groups
In our search to learn all we could about human energy and its impact upon human outcomes, especially in teams, groups and organisations, I came across these two word pictures:
Lessons Humanity can learn from the Ant
I was reading a little about ants, and I learned a lot about nature – possibly even Human nature!
Complexities of Life
Chess is apparently the most complicated game humans play. Despite the fact that there are only 32 pieces in 6 shapes, 64 squares, two colours and a board that is two dimensional, there are more po...
Lessons from Nature
Nature, left to its own devices by humans, is the most remarkable self-regulating system. What is amazing is how carefully and judiciously nature uses power and how exquisitely it maintains the bal...
Behaviour Change
Everybody seems, in one way or another, to be wanting to change behaviour – their own or someone else’s!
Becoming Deeply Real
I believe that we can get still enough to hear the sound of the genuine in each of us if we have the will and the tools.....
A lesson to be learnt from the sage words of Chief Seattle
The words of a so-called ‘primitive’ person, a Red Indian, are quoted. The man’s profound insight and the similarity to other pronouncements are striking. This indicates that we are dealing...
We have met the Enemy - and it is PowerPoint
As someone who doesn’t have a computer and can neither create, project or use PowerPoint in any of my presentations I defend my aging incompetency and technical obsolescence by being cynical and ...
Anything you can do I can do better!
That song, sung by Doris Day and Robert Goulet in the show "Annie Get Your Gun", was one I knew in that era but we males never took it seriously! Women couldn’t challenge men at anything! Such a ...
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink:
Just as we were getting used to the information age, Daniel Pink tells us that it is ending. With it goes our focus on charts, statistics, and linear thinking. Traditional "left-brain" activities l...
