Posts Tagged controlled folly
Thank you Pyxis and Agile Tour Bordeaux
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on October 31st, 2009
I have just returned from a sponsored run of two Ship Of Fools organisational sculpting sessions. Thank you Agile Tour Bordeaux and Pyxis Paris. If it hadn’t been for you this would not have been possible.
On the Paris run I transferred the basic choreography to Emmanuel Gaillot and Raphaël Pierquin so they could make [...]
The five principles of controlled folly
Posted by nynke in Puzzles and rumors on August 15th, 2009
Arrr, so ye be wantin’ t’ go to sea. Then ye best be learnin’ t’
1. Mask yer captainliness: Ignore an event or a key, then freeze bein’ absolutely surprised when its effects upset yer life, then blame th’ energy.
2. Do nay confore: Expect energy, wait fer ‘t, surrender yersef t’ ‘t, then keel haul others, [...]
There is no such thing as a free lunch. Or is there?
Posted by nynke in New information on August 10th, 2009
The gains of controlled folly are tremendous. A sculpt can generate large amounts of useful data for laying a sound basis for a long term program of work on key organisational issues. The only restrictions are our imagination, skills, and abilities.
… and there is no such thing as a free lunch!
I knew it! There’s [...]
Gathering the crew for an alpha run
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on August 9th, 2009
At European Consultants Camp we did an alpha run of the Ship of Fools sculpt. This to gather some very recent images for kick-starting integrated pull-marketing of the controlled folly service, gaining critical feedback from excellent colleagues familiar with and skilled in facilitating Satir concepts, and gathering a crew for causing another “congruence meme” wave.
Run [...]
Original idea Ship of Fools
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on August 9th, 2009
Inspiration is not born in a vacuum; excellent ideas are seeded by other excellent ideas and fertilized by still more excellent ideas.
Controlled folly was originally re-designed from the balancing act, to support consultants coaching executive teams and managers. The demand was taken from the AIM UAW alliance executive coaching webpage, and from exchanges with Peter [...]
Foolishly surfing chaos
Posted by nynke in Appreciations and excitements on July 1st, 2009
We appreciate Peter Schoonens and Marc Hersch for their dancing with Nynke’s chaos. She can be eXtremely chaotic when looking to see what’s mired in the muck. Check, double check, this and that, design here, create there … Their feedback has been instrumental in re-incarnating the balancing act in the form of controlled folly for [...]
The core
I wish …. We all take ourselves a little less serious, and laugh a little bit more.
