Apologies for the travelogue for those looking for meatier posts… yesterday’s stop on the tour of NZ found me boating on the Marlborough Sound on the north east end of the South Island. Another away-from-it-all location. Here’s me (in dayglo orange) with my friend/host Tom.
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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
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I wrote the other day about the dangers of facilitators who are in love with their process. When that happens I think they’re actually relating to their idea, rather than
