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1. Start here: Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation
Humanity AND effectiveness: a new idea, a life's work - or both?
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New third edition of The Solutions Focus book out this week (in UK and on Kindle)
This fully revised and expanded edition comes 22 years after the first edition - proving that the book is a classic!
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58. “I've never been so scared in my entire life. And I've never felt more alive.”
The movie Civil War gives an insight into the importance of risk in job and life fulfilment.
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17. The Death Of Resistance: what is it and why it’s so important in Solution Focus
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12. Altogether Better: Working in the liminal space between ‘professional’ and ‘life’ worlds
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42. Tim Brighouse’s list of ’20 Things That Teachers Do’
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10. Plan – and practise – being response-able (as well as responsible)
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46. The difference between hope and faith
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50. How to stay out of ‘toxic positivity’
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57. Putting the unique power of POSITIVE difference to work
In a complex system, what makes things better is not simply the opposite of what makes things worse.
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56. Solution Focused Performance Management – using difference, not removing it
Most performance management systems strive to remove difference. How much better to keep it, amplify it and use it to build positive change.
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55. The strange case of London’s mayoral voting system
This odd change to first-past-the-post gives less opportunity for voters to express difference and nuance – negating a key part of Solution Focused…
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54. How are you using the four positions of a host?
This part of the Host Leadership model is super-flexible and super-relevant for hosts, facilitators, scrum-masters and Agile folk as well as managers at…
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53. Harrison Owen – “Do one less thing”
How not acting can be a powerful intervention in managing, training and coaching.
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52. The host is both the first and the last... a real-life example of leading in a crisis
Captain Chesley Sullenberger shows excellent host leadership in the 'Miracle On The Hudson'.
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51. Raise energy and reduce 'meeting fatigue' by making meetings optional - or even Opt-In!
Giving people choice and responsibility help them stay energised, cope with overload (and underload) and make the best use of their time.
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Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation
Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation
The latest in effective and humane organising and living: Solutions Focus, host leadership and community building
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