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Musings
A bricolage blog of cantrips, podcasts, musings and museletters.
2024
✦ May
druidic sensibilities
🌿 The photocopier & the garden
Much of my work is in helping leaders navigate complexity, ambiguity and change. In leadership offsites, this often translates into
2024
✦ May
druidic sensibilities
🌿 Life, While You Grieve
My darling the dangerlam has contributed to the Collect exhibition—a collective of artists, friends and shared studios creating unique
2024
✦ May
fox magic
🦊 Come What May
Today, the first day of May, is as good day as any for you to declare some sort of foolish
2024
✦ April
video
🎭 Do you serve your client—or their context?
This is a trick question I was asked at the end of a fabulous conversation on the alchemy of group
2024
✦ April
fox magic
🦊 Surreptitious obliquity
Here’s a word apt for any complexity practitioner, trickster and rogue: obliquity. I came across it after reading another
2024
✦ March
druidic sensibilities
🌿 Perfect Days
Wim Wenders has made, what seems to me, a perfect movie. The dangerlam and I saw it last night at
2024
✦ March
spellbook
✨ Bonini’s spellbook
It has been a bit over two weeks since I started sharing pages from my spellbook. The idea is to
2024
✦ March
bardic savvy
🎭 Weaponised naïveté
One of the most important things an external facilitator can bring to a context is not their “expertise”—it’s
2024
✦ March
fox magic
🦊 Reject fake arguments
Here is a way, I hope, for you to save yourself from pointless, frustrating and/or time-wasting battles with trolls
2024
✦ March
bardic savvy
🎭 Down with downlighting
Lights should not be placed in ceilings. For thousands of years we humans have sat by campfires at night. In
2024
✦ March
metamodern wizardry
🧙🏻♂️ Moloch media
I have been on a distinctly anti-genocidal bent in recent months, which has been somewhat career-limiting. Instead of using the
2024
✦ February
museletter
💌 Do you even leap?
It’s been a while since I wrote to you. Ahoy and, erm: merry solstice, happy calendar new year, happy
2023
✦ December
💌 It’s okay to signal virtue
In fact: it’s odd not to.
2023
✦ December
quest leadership
🔮 Questing for better strategy (webinar)
A rare glimpse behind the scenes of quest leadership.
2023
✦ November
💌 How to act amidst complexity
First: do no harm.
2023
✦ November
druidic sensibilities
💌 Moral Courage
Is this the standard we accept in society?
2023
✦ October
fox magic
💌 7 Ways to Be a Better Impostor
Infiltrate with influence.
2023
✦ October
fox magic
🦊 The lions are back
What is a fox to do?