Podcast: The tyranny of the explicit Yesterday, I recorded a conversation with Viv McWaters and Roland Harwood on the theme of The Tyranny of the Explicit. We explore how the need for certainty in an uncertain world, the over reliance on metrics and the demand that...

Podcast: Agility In this podcast, I talk with Rob Paterson and Neil Perkin about agility in organisations. This was sparked by Neil's post about agile planning - ways for organisations to respond more effectively to the speed of change in a networked...

Podcast: The tyranny of excellence Update, cue twilight zone theme. Interesting coincidence, here's Hugh's cartoon of the day: Viv McWaters and I are developing a workshop called Crumbs! We look at how creativity is not about big ideas and sudden leaps of insight. It's much...

Podcast: Viv McWaters This morning I recorded a podcast with Viv McWaters. Viv's a fellow facilitator and we shot the breeze about a few common interests. Download the Podcast (30m, 10.5 MB) Podcast RSS feed Some of the stuff we covered: GFC: Global...

Podcast: letting go of planning and control... Rob Poynton, Mark Earls and I recorded a podcast this morning, around the benefits of doing less planning. The podcast itself was largely unplanned but we managed to cover quite a few interesting topics. Download the Podcast (27m45s, 9.8MB) Podcast...

WinkiPod While I was in Australia, I recorded a podcast, pretty much on the spur of the moment, with Geoff Brown and Vic McWaters. We recorded it on a cliff overlooking the WinkiPop surf break nears Bells Beach. It's a typically...

Hugh and the Rabbi 6 The other day, Hugh, Pinny, Mark and I recorded another of our podcasts. It's very much in our tradition of non-linear conversation. Sorry, no show notes for this one - I've not found time to do them this time. Download...

Hugh, Rabbi and the Tribe Hugh, Pinny and I invited Ben Keene of Tribe Wanted onto our podcast. I heard Ben give a talk in London and found his story inspiring. We chatted to him for 30 minutes about his experience setting up a tribe...

What's Love Got to do with It? The latest Hugh and the Rabbi podcast features Hugh, Pinny, me and guest Euan Semple. Recorded a few weeks ago, we've only just round to posting it but I hope you enjoy it. We went round the houses on a...

Chris Corrigan on living systems Rob and I did our latest Phoric podcast with Chris Corrigan, who was pretty awesome. Chris never fails to provoke and engage and his choice of videos was fascinating. The first features a guy who learnt how to move huge...

Social media, mockery et al This afternoon Tom Guarriello and I shot the breeze about the Shel Israel puppet story. Sorry, no shownotes for this one. We covered a fair bit of ground: what comic influences do we see here; is the British take on...

Knowledge Management, Apparently Our seventh phoric podcast (originally scheduled for April 1) is out. Rob and I were privileged to host Dr David Vaine of Apparently Knowledge Management. He is a true thought-leader in the area of KM. Hear how his Architecting Space...

The pitfalls of confidentiality Annette Clancy's recent post on the pitfalls of confidentiality in client relationships prompted her, Matt Moore and me to record a podcast chat about it this afternoon. Download the Podcast - 29m - MP3 (9 MB) Podcast RSS feed Annette...

Podcast: Touch, organisations and Capt Mainwaring Is touch - physical and emotional - a taboo subject in organisations? Why are we so sensitive about it? What is about things "touchy-feely" that seem to make people, well, touchy? I recorded this podcast earlier today with Patrick Lambe...

Phoric 6 Rob and I chatted to Matt Moore on the Phoric yesterday. Matt's a bit of a force of nature and our 10 minute format went out the window! Matt also went down the music video route and some clips I...