ideas
reflections on our work


Changing meetings when you’re not in charge
Crane Stookey tells a simple story of how a workplace culture was changed. Not in a sweeping management programme, but by the small interventions from one

Fighting creativity’s highest crime
Mathew E May says that number one killer of creative ideas is the critic inside our heads. “It’s one thing to reject the ideas of others…we

The work of play
The Atlantic explores Play Anything, a new book by Ian Bogost. The author argues that we’ve come to think of fun as enjoyment without effort, leading us down

Noticing more
One of our go-to principles for facilitation is to Notice More. Organisations are so anxious to make change, often under the motto of “doing more with

Winning or learning?
Tim Gallwey, who wrote The Inner Game books, once hosted a corporate tennis tournament for a client. But he introduced a radical twist to the

Relax your clever
We’ve used a set of eight improv principles as part of our training for a number of years. You can read about the full set here.

Easing into difficulty
You probably saw the viral coverage of United Airlines dragging a passenger off a plane. It’s an example of what can happen when we try

The downside of high-speed creativity
Anjali Sastry argues that hackathons are bad for innovation. It’s a useful counterpoint to a process that has become very popular. We’ve been to some great hackathons

Innovation
We’ve worked on innovation with lots of different organisations in many contexts New product development Service design Emergency management Rethinking strategy We have a wealth