Rambling thoughts on models
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
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Planning as drowning
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
Leadership as holding uncertainty
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
Concreting Complexity
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
The absurd
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
Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
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
Who says fun is dangerous?
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
Rewriting history…
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
Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
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
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links for 2010-09-04
Dennis Whittle: If You Can Flip a Coin, Can You Be an Expert? Short and fascinating. Recipients of aid are asked to tell stories about the experience and then tag
4 September 2010
On conversation…
Lisa Haneberg shared this quote with me by email. Oh the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure
13 November 2005
The tyranny of the explicit
I think that business suffers from the tyranny of the explicit. Its desire for measurability and proof makes it focus on the explicit element of what happens in human relationships.
17 May 2004
Missing the point of twitter
When people look at Twitter and say, “What’s the point?” it might be better not to answer them. It strikes me that, “What’s the point?” is often what depressed people
5 May 2007