How’s this for a bit of er… 360 degree appraisal? Staff at a Vancouver coffee house give their boss some useful feedback.
Spotted by AdPulp via Darren Barefoot via Beyond Robson‘s Vancouver Blog.
UPDATE: Phil Gerbyshak has a spot-on comment on this: Employees tend to quit their bosses not their companies
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
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
David Gurteen (tweet) unearthed this report on research: Why groups fail to share information effectively: Again and again the results have shown that people are unlikely to identify the best candidate,
My friend Jon Husband writes about the turbulence caused to traditional ways of managing by networked people: Knowledge power and an historic shift in work and organizational design I was
Over in Beyond Branding I’ve blogged Robert Paterson [UPDATE linking me to this efilmcritic review] of the provocative documentary, The Corporation. Here’s a snippet: The Corporation is comprehensive, damning, brilliant
As a child I was forced to go to church on Sunday. So empty and repetitive was the ritual that I would borrow my dad’s watch and just watch the
