I loved this tweet from @charlesfrith:
I see people defining a successful self as a self that can keep up with its email https://bit.ly/bIfaLx
I think it’s so easy to conflate drudgery with productivity; and productivity with 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
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
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
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
My friend and collaborator Alan Moore (no relation) pointed out this terrific quotation from John Stuart Mill. There’s good wisdom for facilitators: it’s not our job to get everyone to be
I stumbled on this article by Steven Coats: The conundrum of collaboration. It echoes a question I’ve run into a lot lately: since collaboration makes so much sense how come
I enjoyed an afternoon at NESTA‘s Uploading Innovation unconference on Tuesday, organised by my friends at Policy Unplugged. I often facilitate PU events and it was nice to have the
Chris Corrigan highlights two quotations on writing. The first is from Jeanette Winterston: Creativity is inexhaustible. Experiment, play, throw away. Above all be confident enough about creativity to throw stuff out.
