Evelyn posts a brilliant pushback (or is it an integrating welcome?) to Tom Peters – Tom Says Yang So Let’s Integrate
Peace is an unshakable sense of moment-to-moment power – akin to the power of water that sculpted the Grand Canyon. Peace does not keep the soul in chains nor… Hold back life. PEACE is definitely NOT = BORING = STATUS QUO = STATIC = DEAD.
Rock on Evelyn.
I went down to Surrey on Friday for long walk and pub lunch with Neil Perkin. We’d originally planned to run a workshop about agile
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
In moving house, I radically downsized my collection of books which I can highly recommend. I used to think I’d one day find a reason
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
Thanks to my Improvisation friend Kelsey Flynn I rambled into a letter cited in Margaret Cho’s Blog (go to Letter #1): Lately it seems like
I wanted to share this email doing the rounds this morning… AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE After every flight Qantas pilots fill out a form called a gripe
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
And that last entry reminds me of another story from last week. Some friends and I met a magazine publisher and editor last week to talk about potential collaboration. At
Further to my comment below and in pursuit of my dislike of brandspeak, here is my diagram of how people respond to the abstractions of brand experts. Especially designers of
A few years back, a well-known consultancy business decided to abandon its dress convention of dark suits and white shirts and said folks could dress casual. But quite soon, they
I enjoyed Matthew Stewart’s polemic against management education in The Atlantic. He recounts his success in management based on a mixture of philosphy and… winging it. After I left the
