Dominic Campbell’s challenge to clumsy government procurement has the best title of the year – It’s Time People Got Fired for Hiring IBM. The rest is pretty good too..
Government has a uniquely long and drawn-out procurement process weighed down by red tape and requirements and an unhealthy addiction to big initiatives over many small innovations.
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by
A while ago I wrote about action theatre. It was inspired by Bruce Schneier’s term security theatre, to describe tiresome security measures at airports etc
(This is the second in a series of somewhat ranty posts I started the other day. General theme: is a lot of the fuss and
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work
I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that
Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I’m fond of talking about “relationships before ideas” and Tim seems to be in similar
I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s
Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question.
Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative
I posted this cartoon about six years ago*. It’s one of those throwaway posts that I notice still gets picked up by others. I often
Like Hugh I like Tony Goodson’s questions: Cluetrain feels like ours. LoveMarks feels like theirs. Why are the battle lines being drawn for Cluetrain v LoveMarks? Isn’t LoveMarks trying to
Roland Harwood has written a nice post about working in networks. Short on jargon, long on common sense. Viv and I often riff on Roland’s mantra: conversations then relationships, then
I’m excited to be part of the More Space project dreamt up by Todd Sattersten. The idea: 10 bloggers each contribute a chapter to a book. We get 10 000
I’ve never met Chris Corrigan and he lives 5000 miles away. And sometimes what he says touches me deeply. Today he talks about patience. If you have some, you can
