A Children’s Party Plan – What do you do? Emergence
by Rob Paterson
Here is the brilliant Dave Snowden in less than 5 minutes nailing a better way – as I heard the “Normal” way we plan I had to cringe – did you?
5 Comments »
 | Lisa AustinOctober 28th, 2009 at 9:41 am |
Could this be any more abstract? I don’t think so.
 | Rob PatersonOctober 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm |
mmmm – It’s a metaphor – the 2nd part – how we traditionally plan and organize seemed pretty clear to me – because Dave is trying to do all of this in a few minutes – the 3rd part – uses language such as “attractors” that can’t easily be described otherwise.
Isn’t his point really that you would never plan a kid’s party the way we plan and run things at work and so why not look at a better way.
Did that not come through?
 | TJ McCueOctober 28th, 2009 at 3:27 pm |
I thought this was terrific, Rob. Thanks for sharing it. I wouldn’t have found it otherwise. Great approach to sharing a heavy concept and making sense of it. One may have to think a bit about the connection between their work and these Children Party systems, but not too hard. Eager to take a look at the Sensemaker applications.
Thanks
TJ
 | Ian GlendinningOctober 29th, 2009 at 3:15 pm |
Abstract ? It’s dead-pan ironic to make a point about the dry, lack-of-engagement-in-reality extreme approaches.
I saw Dave do this 3 or 4 years ago, and it’s good to see a recorded version I can share with others. Thanks.
(I did / do think it would be better if it ended with the line “you little bastards”.)
 | SEOSpyOctober 28th, 2009 at 7:08 am |
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