Simon who commented on my post I’m not backing the bid emailed me. He points to a website for those – like me – who are fed up with ads in London instructing us to support the 2012 Olympic bid. The official website asks for votes of support but provides no place for dissent.
Well someone has responded with nolondon2012 where you can now NOT back the bid. It also points to a French site where you can back the Paris bid. Which I did.
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
I’m enjoying Not Knowing an interesting book by Steven D’Souza and Diana Renner. It’s got some great quotes and sound bites – I really like the one pictured about the shadow
I’m just back from a screening of Us Now courtesy of NESTA. It’s a one hour documentary exploring the question: In a world in which information is like air, what
I was looking out of the kitchen window this morning at the rain. It looked like it was just on the edge of being sleet. A few minutes later I
Neil Turner blogs about a machinima (in this case a kind of pop video) on YouTube created in World of Warcraft using the song Here Without You. I love this.
