Neil Turner blogs about a machinima (in this case a kind of pop video) on YouTube created in World of Warcraft using the song Here Without You.
I love this. I love WoW being used for something quite different than it was orginally built for, simple cos of an ethic of letting folks play. (And how much free publicity is that worth to them, by the way?) And I love what Neil shares in his blog.
There’s something holding all this stuff together and I fancy most of us could use some more of it…
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
I think there are way too many really bad diagrams in the world of organisations. Visual explanations can be extremely useful and effective. The famous London Underground map is a
On revolutions: two blog posts that stopped me in my tracks | Open (minds finds, conversations)… Excellent synthesis of ideas about the real impact of social media and those who
Nice post by Roland Harwood reflecting on Rob Poynton’s Everything’s An Offer. Rob relates that in improv you can see offers in three groups: Vague – I need help Open
In my previous post I briefly referenced this transcript of a talk at Harvard by Alfie Kohn: The Deadly Effects of Tougher Standards. I’m a big fan of Kohn and
