Rob just left a comment that linked to this Dumbo YouTube, which is one of my favourite movie clips. As Rob says, it’s a mocking tribute to “all the doubters that you have to cope with when you want to do something extraordinary”.
(At some level, I kinda love the crows as I think most of us enjoy a good sneer from time to time.)
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
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
Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced
Antonio Dias asks two great questions in the comments to his post on drowning (which I blogged the other day). The first is: How do we engage with people who
Freddie Daniells has been thinking about Brand Honesty and related matters. (He’s kind enough to reference me in his post). Here’s the context: “Marketing is in crisis” – so said
I’ve just had a conversation with my colleague Chris Pearse about the Hutton report. (Just published, Lord Hutton’s report into a scandal surrounding a government weapons expert Dr David Kelly,
Kay Scorah and I enjoyed our first Day of Noticing workshop in Dublin in March. We had some very positive feedback from our first set of participants. So now we’re
