John Moore highlights An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth.
I probably agree with all 43 points here and I appreciate the intention. But I fear that manifestos don’t work. At least not half as well as their authors hope.
It seems to me that children know how to play and how to grow, without resort to 43 injunctions. Do we as adults need a long checklist to do it?
I yearn for simpler ideas, more lightly held.
Or some nice poetry maybe.
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
Jackie Huba found this article: A cut above from the Sydney Morning Herald. To launch its new Vodka brand in Australia Absolut have ditched conventional advertising in favour of word-of-mouth.
I loved this video: a globalised version of Stand by Me. Stand By Me from David Johnson on Vimeo. Originally from RedWire Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan
I’ve sometimes talked about Bruce Schneier’s idea of “security theatre”. He uses this to describe security processes at airports that (in his view) create an illusion of security to reassure the
Viv pointed me to The play of change by Lloyd Sandelands. I like the idea of play being at the heart of change – even if this is anathema to
