A Swedish teacher wonders how to compete with World of Warcraft. Good question the sort we might chat about on Wednesday afternoon at NESTA. There’s room for few more if you’re interested.
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
Chris Rodgers has written a couple of related posts on management as “muddling through” and the “beautiful ugly truth” of management. As usual I find myself nodding in agreement. I’ve
I had coffee with Nathalie McDermott yesterday. She’s up to all kinds of good stuff helping create connections for people easily squeezed out of public conversations. She made a terrific
Dave Pollard’s weekly round up of links reminded me (via Sheri Herndon) of this bit of wisdom from Meg Wheatley: In order to improve the health of a system connect
Tom Hamilton had me laughing this morning with this comment. I spent much of yesterday travelling from London to Leeds and back by train and on the return journey I
