Rambling thoughts on models
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
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Rewriting history…
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Christmas presence
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Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
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Competencies
Dave Snowden‘s post on apprenticeship resonated with me. I wouldn’t like to be in HR on the day the fiery Welshman shows up. (Especially if we were not offering him
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Social capital in markets
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Ouch
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Feedback
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