Will Richardson points to Ning. Here’s a fascinating clue to what the future may hold. A place where anyone can create a social web app in minutes. Will made a guide on where to eat in his LA neighbourhood.
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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
Chris Rodgers sparked an intense and interesting conversation with (among others) Dave Snowden with this post: Self-organization and emergence as natural dynamics of organization. It’s not light reading but I
Yesterday James Cherkoff and I were interviewed by Neville and Shel of the Hobson and Holtz Report. We kicked around some of the thoughts behind our Open Sauce workshops. There’s
I’m continuing to work through Presence. The chapter on presence as a form of leadership is one of the strongest for me. It articulates a non-heroic idea of leadership that
Steve Yastrow on the Tom Peters blog highlights this US News article on Yahoo: Kerry’s muddled message. Here’s Steve’s take: Those who support John Kerry are frustrated with his campaign
