This flash movie on Bush vs Kerry – This Land is My Land – made me smile. (It takes a while to load up) I love the inventiveness of these things and repeat viewing shows the funny details. My favourite bits of this are the little cameo appearances by Howard Dean and Bill Clinton.
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
Shawn at Anecdote finds another interesting article about the neuroscience of how we change and why we resist change. I blogged about another of Shawn’s finds a few weeks ago
Here’s another extract from Viv‘s and my forthcoming little book which presents a few of our favourite ideas about working with people as facilitators and trainers. You can now download
James Woudhuysen has produced a provocative and well thought out essay on the mischief of branding – and of anti-branders.
I’ve been enjoying James Gardner’s blog, especially since he moved from his bank to the Department of Work and Pensions. I get the sense that with this move he’s able
