On Facebook Patti Digh offers some fabulous advice:
To my friends with kids moving to college next week, I have but three pieces of advice: 1) Handcart. Trust me. You’ll make 2 trips instead of 15; 2) Make the day about them not you. About their fantastic future, not about your loss; and 3) Leave them sooner than you believe you should. Say goodbye and go. They can sort out their clothes and hair conditioner. Go.
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
Both of these are lifted from Dave Snowden’s presentation on contextual complexity. Nasrudin found a weary falcon sitting one day on his window-sill. He had never seen a bird like
Jonah Lehrer points to research on how we react to inequality in a post calculated to send Fox News fans into a frenzy: the idea of scientists arguing for wealth
I’ve finally started paying attention to RSS and all this stuff about “Blog Aggregators”. The final shove was wanting to get Martin Roell’s English feed. Knowing myself I decided the
You may have come across the term security theatre, to describe, as Bruce Schneier puts it, “countermeasures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing actually to
