Management and Metaphor

Martin Roemer from Munich, Germany was asked by a colleague for help to develop a structure for the management book he is about to write. “He had around fifty pages of notes of ideas and concepts for the book, collected over quite some time. Apart from the overall topic I did not know anything about the intended contents of the book when ...

30/08/2008 | 1 Comment »

April 2008 Clean news: Improve your relationships with Clean Language

Excitement is building about the world’s first Clean Conference, on 21 and 22 June in London. The programme of presentations has just been published and includes most of the top names in the field – pioneers, developers and trainers of Clean Language, metaphor, Symbolic Modelling and Emergent Knowledge. Whether you’re an ...

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March 2008 Clean news: Early birds and parrot-phrasing

Spring is here and things are hotting up in the Clean Community. We’re counting down to: * Clean Conference in London in June www.cleanconference.co.uk. The full conference programme will be published in the next few days.. * 2008′s Advanced Modules featuring Penny Tomkins, James Lawley and Wendy Sullivan. These were recently dubbed ...

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February 2008 Clean news: Clean Conference booking opens

This month has been full of preparations for the world’s first Clean Conference. Due to popular demand, booking for the event on 21 and 22 June in Euston, London, has opened ahead of schedule – see www.cleanconference.co.uk. Full details of the programme of speakers are still being worked out but it will include most of the top names ...

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January 2008 David Grove: A Great Man

For many people in the Clean Community this month has been dominated by the death of David Grove, originator of Clean Language, Clean Space and Emergent Knowledge, who died suddenly on 8 January in Kansas City, USA. His body was flown back to his homeland in New Zealand for a traditional Maori ceremony. A fund has been set up to help the family ...

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Case study: Using Clean to speed up meetings

A large, publicly-funded civil engineering project, which had lasted four years and involved partner organisations from five different countries, was drawing to a close. The challenge was to quickly and efficiently look back at the results of the project, and draw out relevant lessons. In order to extract maximum benefit from the experience, a ...

29/08/2008 | 1 Comment »

Clean and Crafty Listening

By Michael Mallows, May 2007 Most people’s listening skills, if they listen at all, are very poor indeed! Many, not least many in the so-called listening or helping professions, who might be described by others as, and would consider themselves good listeners, have little training in listening. Yes, they might have read, been taught or ...

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Clean Summer School, Cambridge 2007

We did it! Happy but exhausted participants, assistants, trainers and assessors celebrated the end of their gruelling intensive Clean course at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Some in the Clean Community were sceptical when Clean Change Company announced this event. Could it be done? All four foundation-level modules, plus assessment ...

28/08/2008 | 1 Comment »

Case study: Senior executive search and recruitment

When recruiting for very senior roles (£400k+) in the pharmaceutical industry, as in any business, you can’t afford mistakes. Tightly defined frameworks allow detailed assessment of competencies, and standard interview and meeting protocols gather the views of prospective colleagues. And still something extra was wanted – another ...

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Six degrees of David Grove

By Judy Rees First published in Resource magazine, April 2006 It was always going to be an adventure – the first interview maverick therapeutic genius David Grove had given since 1996. So maybe it wasn’t surprising to find myself dangling upside-down in a dark, sub-zero November car park on a psycho-active fairground ride.  ...

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