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Gail and Matt Taylor. Bonus to Jeff Shults. So many great folks, especially Todd Johnston, Alicia Bramlett, Jodi Engelberg. Others I met and admired, but never got to know well: Bryan Coffman, Rob Evans, Michael Kauffman.

How I Met Gail and Matt

Center for Design Research.

KnoWhere Store in Palo Alto.

PlaNetwork.

Wikis. 7 Domains. Supporting The Value Web for the World Economic Forum.

Lessons Learned

Group Genius. Camel story.

Modeling Language.

Ship Product.

Stuart Kauffman

Matt's vision. Sketchbook.

Frank Lloyd Wright and professionalization.

Scan Focus Act. Shared understanding. What Phil Windley called the "butt sniffing stage."

Systemic approach to face-to-face meetings.

Design is more important than facilitation. Everyone is a facilitator. You are not facilitating the room by yourself.

Hide the agenda. Fancy restaurant approach.

Anyone can have a bad day. Saw Gail have one. Design a more resilient system.

Importance of Knowledge Workers (KreW). Mechanics of running a successful meeting. Hard freakin' work!

Knowledge capture / artifacts. Alicia Bramlett.

Backcasting. Can't get from here to there, but can get from there to here. Link to rubber band blog post.

Work big.

Glass Bead Game. Cardboard boxes.

Red Threads.

Yellow Threads.

Bigger groups easier to design than small groups. Have to let go of control, trust the makeup of the group. Link to collective intelligence blog post.

Business and IP. Impact of business adoption.

The Value Web.

Leaping the Abyss. Written by others!