May 8, 2006
I refer to myself as an extroverted thinker. That’s shorthand for – I haven’t a clue what I know until I start talking to someone – that’s why you’ll see frequent references here to “conversations”. Conversations are my key strategy for understanding myself and I’ve also found in my consulting…
May 2, 2006
For years I’ve fooled everyone around me into believing I think in straight lines. My academic and business writing makes “sense” and I can follow the rules if I’m pushed to it. But I’m a secret mind mapper…it’s the only way I can make any kind of sense out of…
April 18, 2006
As I mentioned in the previous post, I use a process called Dynamic Participation as a methodology for consulting and facilitating. Increasingly we live in an age where “participation” is thrown around like snuff at a wake – what exactly does it mean? and more to the point, what does…
April 17, 2006
In terms of clarity, strategy has become an ever more obtuse art (Micklethwait J and Wooldridge A, 1996, pp159). We are regularly invited to assist organisations in the generation of strategic plans. The generation of a document or report is very often seen as the “end product” of a process…
April 17, 2006
I’m delighted to announce that Interactions has won the contract to design and manage a consultation process for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to inform the first strategy for arts development in the county. We’ll be working closely with the Arts Office and I’m looking forward to meeting artists, policy…
April 17, 2006
There are over 80 participants at this conference, complemented by a team of ten “staff”. All are drawn from the four corners of the earth. I’ve met people from France, the United States, Peru, India and every place in between. The working languages of the conference are English and French…
April 17, 2006
If I’ve been asked that question once, I’ve been asked it a hundred times in the last few years. In an age of the “sound bite” trying to talk about the complexity of human relationships that make up business life doesn’t quite lend itself to co-operation. All of my work…
