We hesitated before mentioning poetry for facilitation in this article. You might think it has nothing to do with the practical business of facilitation, right?

Our friend, Steve Chapman, has written a short post about the perils of trying to be original: In my work I find that the biggest thing

W Patrick McCray asks us to “abandon the cult of the great white innovator” in this Aeon article from 2016: It’s not all lightbulbs. McCray says

In his blog post, There’s No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car, Eaon Pritchard makes some great observations about the creative process. He draws on

One of the most useful ideas from the agile computing world is the idea of rapid prototyping. It’s well described here: rapid prototyping in an agile

Oliver Burkeman has a provocative article on Why Time Management is Ruining Our Lives. Burkeman looks at the downsides of the search for efficiency: it can

Lots of people don’t really want to be in your meeting. Some don’t want to be there at all, and others will experience chunks of

Many business meetings are over-engineered in an effort to make sure something happens. And happens reasonably fast. If things are just bumbling along, someone will express their

Tim Harford looks at the value of messiness. He has written widely on this topic, but in this article he focusses on tidy desk policies. Researchers