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Keep the road under the show
Today a reflection from a learning from the latest Facilitation Shindig in London on the phrase:
Keep the road under the show
The photo above is from the 2018 movie of Mortal Engines, the Philip Reeves book series.
In Mortal Engines, Reeves created a dystopian world in which cities are mobile, always literally moving forwards while life continues in the city day to day. The largest of those cities is the one pictures, London.
Now, imagine a city moving along slowly and inexorably, consuming resources and other smaller towns while again the life of the citizens goes on within the city.
At the Facilitation Shindig, Gary Austin of Circle Indigo shared the phrase:
Keep the road under the show
Gary mentioned this in context of a project he worked on much earlier in his career, one that had many moving parts, people, elements. For this project, that phrase was their mantra, a play on words of the old phrase “keep the show on the road”.
The meaning of this linked closely to a term I use and have written about:
Proactive Resilience can be linked to one’s personal performance and it can also be linked to the performance of a team, business, organisation…
