This tweet from Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan caught my eye.
With respect I am unsure what the Home Secretary thinks that she told GMP to do different. She listened but said nothing. Tactics were ours!
I think twitter so lowers the threshold for “publishing” that we start putting into the record things more spontaneously. I think it’s one of the ways it subverts more rigid hierarchy and eats away at the power of those at the top.
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
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
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
The Primed Directive « Fascinating set of examples of how we can be "primed". Simple things that appear to make us more or less smart on tests and more besides
I enjoyed Alan Moore’s slideshare from Reboot Britain, No Straight Lines. It’s worth taking a good look. Al kicks off with a very funny story about a train journey and
… is just one of the results from Neil T‘s Random Harry Potter Book Title Generator. I also liked Harry Potter and the Philospher of Luton and Harry Potter and
I had a great meeting yesterday with Jack Martin Leith who has done more thinking about things like innovation and change and is refreshingly cynical about much conventional thinking about
