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
Matthew Syed has a powerful article in The Guardian highlighting the toxic effects of blame on organisations. A bureaucratic over-reaction to errors is hugely counter-productive. Too much rigidity in pursuit
Viv had an old fashioned afternoon tea filled with gossip. And reflects: It was a different world in the days when this sort of afternoon tea was more common. No-one
Dave Snowden talks about Nancy Dixon’s challenge to his recent speech at a KM conference. Nancy Dixon in response to my keynote yesterday expressed a preference for getting people together
I’m on my way back to Blighty overnighting here in Singapore. It’s 6am apparently, but I am deep in jetlag and wouldn’t like to vouch for this. A very long
