Rob has a couple of interesting posts up. He challenges how conversations about diversity reinforce stereotypes in particular of the white male. And he describes an approach to cancer screening that relies on herd principles for success.
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
Here’s a raised glass to the folks at the AdPulp blog. Always a good read lately it’s become particularly good. They are posting with attitude and I like it. Today
I’ll be running an Open Evening on 22 March at 5pm along with my colleagues at The Clarity Partnership. The theme is The Elephant Under the Table. We’ll be exploring
The Primed Directive « Fascinating set of examples of how we can be "primed". Simple things that appear to make us more or less smart on tests and more besides
So while I’m in the territory of challenging false dichotomies and then proposing new ones which are probably equally flawed but at least different… I reread my last post and
