Then again perhaps this is a metaphor for our times. Perhaps those impressive technocrats aren’t either as smart as they think… or as powerful – or even evil – as we imagine?
Update: Rob continues in the same vein. I’m pretty sure it was Rob who put the Oz metaphor in my mind in the first place, quite a while back.
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
It’s hard to know where to begin in talking about the state of the world economy but one theme that constantly returns for me is this: there is a lot
Katherine Stone has a great post about the response of Six Apart, the folks behind the TypePad blogging package, to some problems in the last few weeks. They ask their
Declan Elliott highlights the launch of Boost Digital, a distribution platform for independent filmmakers: A platform where the work stands and falls on the individual talent of the artist, not
Alek Kjerulf writes about business culture. A Dutch sociologist asseses several factors including something called a Power Distance Index (how hierarchical) and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (how scared of ambiguity). The
