I was in a Waterstones the other day surveying the shelves full of business books and thinking: if these books really did have the answers how come things aren’t closer to excellence in the world? Content is not king, as Hugh points out.
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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
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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
I ran an evening session on Improv for the Fun Federation last month. Clearly I didn’t do enough to put people off as they’ve asked me back to run another.
…asks The Londonist reporting Benylin’s campaign to have us download different sorts of coughs as ringtones. Their website emits coughing noises too. The PR spin is that they’re trying to
LEWIS 360°: You are what you Tweet Another case study in how not to do social meeja. In this case Gillian McKeith. "In her programme she insists on poking around
Tony Goodson tips me off to Audioblogging. Suw Charman is trying it for a week and I’m going to see how it works. First reaction: I like hearing her voice;
