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How on earth does ANYTHING get done?
No wonder your average entrepreneur so loathes meetings. What was it Dave Berry said – organisations have meetings because they can’t actually masturbate? Either they are poorly conceived (death by powerpoint, serial-sage-on-the-stage) or else they are adequately conceived and then … Continue reading
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Tagged ego-fodder, facilitation, facipulation, meetings
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Ego fodder definition – opinions sought
What do you guys think? Modifications/expansions etc welcome.
Youtube: “Outrage is an anagram of…”
Went to a [name redacted on legal grounds] meeting tonight. After 40 minutes of problem, with no reflection how the group’s current numbers and “strategies” (cough cough) and, well, EVERYTHING ABOUT IT, I had had enough and law of two … Continue reading
As a white m/c male, I am beginning to tire of race, class and gender-baiting
I have privilege, I have entitlement. I do not deny either. I used that privilege a few weekends ago when an avuncularitis-ing muppet chose not to have a co-facilitator in a room of 30 people, even though he is – … Continue reading
XX marks the spot? Female-dominated meetings
Yes there are exceptions (many exceptions), but as a gross generalisation – for reasons that may have to do with genetics, or socialisation (and I am not particularly interested because the ‘genetics’ argument is a red herring) – women are … Continue reading
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Tagged avuncularitis, ego-fodder, meetings, movement-building, social movements
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I explain (to myself) my obsession with (my) ego*
So, what’s with this obsession with ego? I’m forever wailing about ego-fodder (since you ask “the audience at any public event (big or small) which has not been structured by the organisers to provoke the highest possible amount of participation, … Continue reading
Posted in a little self-knowledge, narcissism
Tagged Cognitive Humility, cognitive limitations, ego-fodder
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Compass: pointless and going round in circles – I have no #timeforplanb
Attention Conservation Notice: I went to a meeting of a group that proclaims itself “Britain’s most influential politcal movement for real change.*” And guess what. It’s entrenched in the smugosphere and I was turned into ego-fodder. What. A. Surprise. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Compass, ego-fodder, irony police, meetings, movement-building, smugosphere, social movements
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“Let’s cut to the chase and have a fascist dictatorship* already”
Because the anti-fascist crowd (and here I don’t mean the street-fighting men – I mean ‘democracy campaigners’ more broadly), simply do not have their shit together. Last night I went to a small meeting (I’ll not mention the organisation’s current … Continue reading
Ego and Ebbinghaus – when will we ever learn?
I have been ego-fodder at two events in less than 24 hours, so excuse me if the following post seems like it is written with a red mist… WHAT ON GAIA’S GREEN EARTH DO WE THINK WE ARE WE DOING? … Continue reading
When will we ever learn? Erm, *outside* the “lecture”
This excellent video (hat-tip to the brilliant Johnnie Moore) ought to kill off the “sage-on-the-stage” “ego-fodder” model of events good and dead. But of course it won’t (I’ve already speculated here and here as to why).
