I’ve picked these from twitter in the last day or so.
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’–it’s ‘that’s funny'” Isaac Asimov via @dearsarah
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.– Julius Charles Hare via @oncevision
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso, also via oncevision
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
Forget Lovemarks. If you want to see the future of marketing just read Robert Scoble and specifically his latest Open Letter to Bill Gates. (For those who’ve not come across
Thomas Frank bemoans the lack of creativity among gurus of… creativity: we’re talking about the literature of creativity for Pete’s sake. If there is a non-fiction genre from which you have
Squeezing the last drop out of our visit to Copenhagen, James and I spent 90 minutes with Jacob Boetter at the airport. Jacob and his colleagues – here’s their blog
Well, I’ve laid off Lovemarks for a few weeks now so it’s good to see Hugh at Gaping Void taking up the cudgels. Advice to marketeers: Stop worrying whether people
