I found this BBC wildlife video stunning. It’s a time lapse film showing how creatures like starfish very slowly consume the body a dead seal on the ocean floor. You may find it slightly creepy but for me at least this Sunday morning, there’s a message about death being only part of the much bigger story of life.
Hat tips: Andrew Sullivan and Maggie Koerth-Baker
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
A meeting with David Boyle, author of an excellent book on Authenticity, and plans for a meeting in London on January 21st to discuss the topic.
Harold Jarche has written a good succinct post on the shift managers have to make from hierarchy to network. It makes lots of sense to me, and it’s a challenge
Eariler this week I went to the Cambridge Pitch & Mix. There was a great mix of people and lots of ideas stuck in my mind. One in particular was
I’m generally pretty wary of models and if you want to put me off an idea, showing me a diagram is usually the best way. But I’ll cut Roy Langmaid
