Neil Perkin examines the success of the New York Times paywall. In a nutshell, it works because it’s porous.
Porosity is a concept that’s caught my attention before. I guess it goes pretty closely with a tolerance for ambiguity.
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
James Cherkoff and I will be taking part in Reboot this June in Copenhagen. Here’s the heads up reboot is a community event focused on digital chance and culture. A
Rob is doing some interesting work with KTEC in St Louis in response to the mortgage crisis. This is a pilot for a project that could roll out across NPR
Euan Semple “Changing Innovation” (lift09 France EN) from Lift Conference on Vimeo. Euan has posted his talk from LIFT last year. Good stuff including his mini-rant against the costs of
The focus of your core training should be on creating the space and capability for great thinking and relationships. That’s Lisa Haneberg on how to ensure training is not a
