Chucking bricks My friend Howard Mann draws his inspiration for business from a college football coach. After a run of disastrous form he stops using a football for training. Instead, the athlete's have to throw bricks. Screw up on the basics...

Spark Hard on the heels of More Space, I'm now waxing lyrical in another new book, John Winsor's Spark. The book's subtitle is "Be more innovative through co-creation". John's interviewed innovative people from organisations like Patagonia, Nike and Herman Miller and...

Declan's blog My friend Declan Elliott's blog has some great posts. I loved this story of his chutzpah in explaining himself to a CEO in 60 seconds. I also liked hearing about the latest blog-book project, The Real Meaning of Life....

Jennifer's back, and this time it's personal... Jennifer Rice took a long break from blogging and has come back refreshed. I'm finding myself nodding along with what she says here about changing her blog to put more of herself in, and being less restricted in what she...

Moonlighting with Chris Corrigan I've just finished a chat over Skype with Chris Corrigan. I wanted to pick his brains on a facilitation project I'm running. Chris was on his deck on Bowen Island, watching the late night water taxi arrive from Vancouver, and...

PR man wrings hands After the recent berating of PR bloggers for laxitude, it doesn't surprise me that my friend Tim Kitchin saysI will do almost anything to avoid admitting that I'm in public relationsAnd adds some ideas on how he can square it...

Gun for hire; only slightly used... Paul Goodison is looking for work.So, I am looking, ideally a strategic role, in either marketing or knowledge management and possibly with connections to Internet technologies (websites, software, hardware) but defintely something that allows me to use my considerable experience...

Inside the Gherkin The strangest building on the London Skyline is generally known as The Gherkin. I was invited a launch party there by my friend Sue Glasser and it was quite fun to hail a cab and say "Take me to the...

The John and Jennifer Experience Jennifer Rice has been talking about our meetings in Malmo. Modesty (the False brand of it) prevents me from quoting the very flattering things she says (but do take a look for yourself). But I'd like to dwell on this...

Jerry Springer The Opera I met Ton Zijlstra and his partner Elmine yesterday evening and we went to see the wonderful and bizarre Jerry Springer The Opera. How can I capture this experience in words? The idea of turning his show into Opera is...

Google translates compliments well... but strangles a lot of stuff! At the NGO conference (blogged yeserday and the day before) I met Martin Roell, a German blogger and e-business guru. He's blogged the event in German so I got a chance to try Google translate which is charmingly erratic. Verna...

Heroes... Linus Torvalds demonstrates humbleness, which makes him a different kind of hero. Tom Heuerman contrasts heroic "leadership" with heroic journeys.

Great conversations... I met Paul Goodison yesterday along with my Beyond Branding co-authors Tim Kitchin and Malcolm Allan and fellow Medinge Group member Luke Nicholson. (The Medinge Group is the think-and-do tank that gave rise to the book). It was a great...

So now I'm published I popped over to Kogan Page yesterday to pick up my own copy of Beyond Branding. (It's quite handy that my publisher is a 10 minute walk from where I live). So now I'm a published author for the first...

Trust and NGOs My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting gathering of Knowledge Managment gurus so I'm feeling quite chuffed to be speaking there. I'm...