Executive Playgrounds

In this clip, Rob Fulup, Michael Schrage and I describe the kind of collaboration I was able to facilitate when I developed my Technography method.

What Technography is to meetings, Junkyard Sports is to professional sports. It's the same central vision, informed by the ideal of mutual empowerment, of what I call "Coliberation." Just like Junkyard Sports, Technography approaches meetings as open systems, designed to serve the community that uses them: where the players are more important than the game, where success is measured in terms of participation, involvement, mutual accomplishment.

You can read more about the Technography method in a collection of my articles called "Meetings and Fun." Of those articles, the last, Executive Playgrounds, is the subject of today's FunCast, (which you can listen to here) and perhaps the most relevant to this historical perspective - making the connection between meeting rooms and playgrounds - explaining why, despite the success of Technography, I found myself looking for more fundamental and universal solutions.

The video clip is from a video called "The Not So-Obvious Art of Collaboration" (which failed to be published due to the no so obvious art of marketing). The tape was made in the 90s, shortly after the publication of Connected Executives.

from Bernie DeKoven's FunLog