Clay Shirky had that snappy line at SXSW this year:
Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
Which is why this kind of self-liquidating innovation is rather cool. (Click here if you can’t see the video.)
Astoria Scum River Bridge from Jason Eppink on Vimeo.
Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Viv emailed me this article from Businessweek: The importance of connecting with colleagues. If you can forgive the slightly office politics tone there’s some interesting nuggets here. For instance there
This is another post on feedback, following up on Andrew Rixon’s post. (Part one here.) In his article on the limits of feedback – Does your leadership reduce learning? (pdf),
Independent Online Edition > Body Shop value slumps after sale to L’Oreal Interesting example of how the public has become a highly critical diffiicult to convince audiene (tags: marketing opensourcemarketing)
Watching out for “rules” we follow which don’t really exist
