Annette has some typically sane thoughts about the potential upside of recession.
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
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
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
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
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Follies of ranking
John Porcaro blogsmore evidence of the dangers of running businesses by crude interpretations of numbers… how superficial metrics can cover a rich tapestry of human issues and guide businesses down
9 September 2003
Collaboration by difference
Cathy Davidson writes about Collaborative Learning drawing on her book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn. It’s
28 August 2011
Looking forward to August
Viv has been blogging up a storm this week, in anticipation of the workshop we’re running at the end of August. Staying alive: Too much time in meetings gets spent
22 July 2016
Not trusting experts
Thomas de Zengotita recommends this book: Expert Political Judgment : How Good is It? How Can We Know? Zengotita writes The answer is shocking at first but makes perfect sense
1 January 2006
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