Agile creativity is the sweet spot at the intersection of planning and improvising. With the help of David Armano’s image, I propose that’s the intersection from which skilled mediators work much of the time.
David, whose influential marketing blog, Logic+Emotion, is a source of inspiration about creativity, design and user experience, says this about agile creativity: […]

Mediation & Applied Conflict Studies core faculty member David Specht was quoted recently in an InterPress Service story about Soliya, for whom David serves as a volunteer facilitator.
The Soliya Connect Program uses web-based videoconferencing technology to create weekly meetings between small groups of university students from the US and predominantly Muslim Countries in the Middle […]

Fellow mediator, ADR blogger, road warrior Geoff Sharp recently found himself in a beautiful—but very cold—spot in the world. In his post about it, Geoff wrote,

Tammy, if your Woodbury College grad students are reading this at the start of class on a summer’s day, tell them please that this is the reality of the coalface […]

I came across this story today:
Thomas Edison is reported to have tested anyone he was thinking about hiring. He would invite them to have a bowl of soup with them. Anyone adding salt without first tasting the soup failed his test. He didn’t want anyone making decisions based upon unfounded assumptions.
I have […]

Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users enjoys challenging assumptions, asking the questions others haven’t, and noting when the emperor has no clothes. She’s much like a very blunt mediator in those ways.
She’s done it again with The Dumbness of Crowds, a title takeoff of James Surowiecki’s bestseller, The Wisdom of Crowds. On the dangers […]