As regular readers know I am a massive Monty Python fan. And having caught up with this (via Geoff Jones), now even more so!
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As regular readers know I am a massive Monty Python fan. And having caught up with this (via Geoff Jones), now even more so!
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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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas

Charlie Beckett POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Embracing Uncertainty: diplomacy and disruption "Authority hates uncertainty. Big business and government feel safest when life is predictable and stable. Change implies

It’s been a bit quiet here lately because to be honest I have been a bit addicted to World of Warcraft this week. Still I feel better knowing Mr T

Robert Paterson has done a great piece on Trust – Identity Social Capital Motivation and Blogging which I’d urge you to read. Inspired by Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards and

From Chelsea Hardaway’s great post: Dirty little secret This is precisely the problem with most big companies — they don’t learn. They get paid to do something and then they