http://www.dreamwork.org Work like a dream Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:03:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently the CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, chose to share his latest insights into the nature of information sharing through social connection. According to Mark, the amount of information shared between people will double every two years. This insight has been termed Zuckerberg's Second Law by Nicholas Carr. However, Mark has ... http://www.dreamwork.org/burning-the-sandal-at-both-ends/ [VIDEO=8] In a follow up session to our visit to Inchcolm Abbey, we were exploring the fact that many of the islands in the Firth of Forth are known as Inches. In this context, the name Inch is derived from Innis, the Gaelic word for an island, and so Inchcolm is ... http://www.dreamwork.org/inch-by-inch/ During a recent Dreamwork Maps session with group of innovators, a recurring Common Ground feature was a research facility on an island. As we started exploring the imagined research facility using Dreamwork Stories, it inevitably started to emerge as something in the same archipelago as Tracy Island. However, by the time ... http://www.dreamwork.org/a-priory-a-priori/ A recent Japanese school production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves explored new artistic ground by featuring 25 Snow Whites and no dwarves. The directorial strategy behind this sidekick free initiative was that every child who took part in the story should play the part of the heroine. Although the ... http://www.dreamwork.org/snow-white-and-the-no-dwarves/ Many organisations and institutions now have a gender balance agenda, in which gender discrimination is actively pursued in a doomed attempt to balance the numbers of men and women in leadership positions. However well intentioned this may seem, it often does not produce the intended outcome. The main reason for this ... http://www.dreamwork.org/a-gender-agenda/ [VIDEO=7] Since commercial transactions began, businesses have been using psychics to help them see into the future and to choose the most profitable paths to follow. Although no contemporary businesses like to admit employing paranormal services, the use of psychics is routine and widespread. Most businesses attempt to operate exclusively in the ... http://www.dreamwork.org/fortune-telling/ For many leaders, a leadership retreat gives them the opportunity to wear Indiana Jones style hats and to endlessly quote David Whyte at each other. The experience is often viewed as more of a treat than a retreat, and the question of who or what they are retreating from is ... http://www.dreamwork.org/leading-and-retreating/ One of the most powerful qualities of a strong and healthy I-You connection is the awareness it it gives us about our own unconscious projections. By clearly and honestly reflecting our behaviour and intentions, it helps us to form more robust perspectives on our situations and potential opportunities. However in many ... http://www.dreamwork.org/aye-ayes-and-i-i-connections/ In the 1950s, German magician Ralf Bialla added a classic bullet catching routine to his performance repertoire. However, unlike other magicians who used a variety of subterfuge and misdirection to apparently catch a bullet, Ralf actually did catch the bullet in his teeth. To offer himself some degree of protection, he ... http://www.dreamwork.org/the-magic-bullet/ [VIDEO=6] In the final episode in Series 5 of the sublime Peep Show, Jeremy explains the concept of Orgones to Mark.  Orgones sound remarkably similar to Spiral Dynamicists Don Beck and Chris Cowan's concept of vMemes (short for values-attracting meta-memes). According to Don and Chris, vMemes can be thought of as broad ... http://www.dreamwork.org/orgones-and-vmemes/