A British artist sneaked into four New York galleries and covertly hung his own art. Brilliant. And the art itself matches the audacity of the hanging. [Via Steve Rubel]
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
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Viv sent me something Harrison Owen posted on the Open Space listserv. In our (understandable and necessary) pursuit of High Performance we make the seemingly obvious assumption that we might
The other night I watched episode 5 of Wildest Dreams. It’s a BBC show in which two small teams of people compete to become wildlife film-makers. Like so many such
Ken Thompson enthuses about a Harvard report Virtual Teams: Palaeolithic Insights About the Art of Cyber-Managing. Ken summarises: Three instincts in particular have to be excavated from our caveman days
Johnson & Johnson are suing the Red Cross over the use of the Red Cross. Ah good morning Mr Bull, may I show you this large red rag? Well, actually
