Rob pointed me to this remarkable site which zooms in from 10 million light years away from the Milky Way down to the quarks on an oak leaf in Florida. Watch this and you mght think what was that thing I was worrying about just now that seemed so important?
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
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
The brilliant Bernie de Koeven has posted a poem about fun and about what sort of fun we want. This bit particularly caught my eye: Like the kinds of fun
The Cognitive Biases of Hierarchy More on the theme of how power corrupts
“We’re so lucky we don’t have to create the brand out of thin air. We just tell the truth and the brand builds itself.” The voice of Thomas Mahon quoted
