Rob May spots a nice article by James Surowicki: The Fatal-Flaw Myth. Snippet:
People are generally bad at accepting the importance of context and chance. We fall prey to what the social psychologist Lee Ross called “the fundamental attribution error”-the tendency to ascribe success or failure to innate characteristics even when context is overwhelmingly important.
Because we underestimate how much variation can be caused simply by luck, we see patterns where none exist.
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
Kathy Sierra continues to share her first rate insights with her crash course in learning theory. Most of the principles she applies to learning… Learners are not “empty vessels” waiting
Lots of my favourite bloggers have recommended this video. Now I’ve seen it I can see why. Sir Ken Robinson at TED
Alan Singer in Australia highlights this quote from an article in The Age. What are television email, chat rooms and blogs if not our lonely selves reaching out for comfort,
I liked this post by Dan Burgess at The Pipeline Project: Learning to Unlearn. He talks about his experience of reverting to almost-barefoot running eschewing years of being, in effect,
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