My friends at Pipeline are doing a little barnraising on December 4th in the form of an event called Good for Nothing. A group of geeks tinkerers and ideas people get together for a day to play together and see if they can create useful things for some good causes.
A nice change from portentous talkfests which is the gist of Neil Perkin’s take on the idea. And a nice way to spend a December Saturday away from Christmas shopping. Hope to see you there.
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
Spent quite a bit of time with Jon Froda and Jesper Bindslev before/during/after the Reboot conference. They were great company and really well up on trends in blogging and marketing.
Whilst tweaking copy for our Co-creation Rules Manifesto with James I found myself riffing on the Cluetrain notion that marketing should no longer be done to people… and combining it
David Weinberger quoted by Jeff Jarvis: There is an inverse relationship between control and trust.
Before leaving London I was talking to some brand consultants about engagement. Their puzzle was: how do we get employees to engage with a brand. How would you approach this
