by Jason | Apr 12, 2016 | Big Ideas, Systems Thinking
This past weekend was the annual Toronto Agile Open Space hosted by the Toronto Agile Community. If you read about Agile at all, you’ve probably noticed the emphasis on processes and tools…which seems to be at odds with something that I just can’t...
by Jason | Mar 27, 2016 | Big Ideas
Last week we sponsored Communitech’s Design for Change session, hosted by Barry Katz. Barry opened with a few stories about ‘design’. I put design in quotes because that term can mean a few things. In this context, it doesn’t mean the look of...
by Jason | Jan 6, 2016 | LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
How cool would it be to solve every organizational problem by playing with Lego blocks? Jason Little is one of 70 Lego Serious Play facilitators in Canada who run workshops to explore large organizational problems. Little says problem-solving with bricks helps kinetic...
by Jason | Dec 6, 2015 | Big Ideas, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) helps people express their ideas through deep, meaningful conversations. In an LSP session, people work together to build models but how can they do that if one team member is 2200 kilometres away? There’s only one way to find out!...
by Jason | May 4, 2015 | Big Ideas, Systems Thinking
I grew up in a blue collar town with a population of around 300 people. My parents had an acre-sized yard which meant cutting the grass with a push-mower, that wasn’t self-propelled, took a big chunk of my weekend time away. About 6 hours of it, if you include...
