I’ve met some great people over the years at the annual Applied Improv Network conference. This June it’s happening in Baltimore.
I’m not sure if I’ll make it this year even though most of it will be in Open Space which should be pretty awesome with a bunch of improvisers in the room. I’ve learnt so much from the world of improv and I can heartily recommend this as a way to spend 4 days this summer.
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
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
Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced
Ben Goldacre has an interesting take on the dangers of Brtain’s proposed ID card scheme. This comes in the wake of the Inland Revenue losing 25m records in the post.
Carman Pirie blogs how an memo from Verizon marked “Proprietary & Confidential. For Internal Use Only.” inevitably got published. The memo’s about how to counter the iPhone. As Carman says,
BuzzMachine » Congratulations, Rocketboom Jeff Jarvis says “Big advertisers and big agencies are chickenshit. They need to grow some balls or else they’ll find new competitors running circles around them”
