Presentation Zen on how Obama would sound if accompanied by powerpoint.
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
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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
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
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
Thoughts for the day
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Christmas presence
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
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Theory X Marketing
Evelyn Rodriguez posts her frustration with Theory X Marketing: I’ll be fairly honest and say I come away from marketing meetings depressed about how the majority of marketers view people.
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Robert Paterson's Weblog: The war on Cancer – after 40 years and billions how have we done? #fail "Greed bordering on the grotesque has been allowed to rule the game
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Lessons from Star Wars
Sometimes I take the Web for granted and then something like this comes along to remind me what an incredible gift it is… for the sharing of gifts. Stephen Anderson
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Thought for the day
Evelyn Rodriquez: If one could honestly assess the root cause of many business problems – it’d be these intimately related concepts: being open is dangerous and being guided by the
27 January 2007