Like Seth Godin I liked the idea of Business Buzzword Bingo. In marketing meetings I would add words like Eyeballs; Penetration; Customer-centric; Metrics; Brandscape… actually, the list could go on and on.
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
Dave Pollard links to: Who are you trying to impress. Justin Kownacki analyses the pitfalls of conversation where the battle for status precludes deeper engagement. His suggested remedies are all
Just want to point to this lucid article by my friend John Wenger: transformational learning. If someone wanted to learn something like ‘how to have a difficult conversation with a staff
At Russell‘s prompting I found this amazing image of Velcro taken by Dee Breger – it’s near to the bottom of that page on Dee’s site. I think of Velcro
Jeff Jarvis puts his sharp finger on something I’ve felt strongly about for a while. Schmoozing the powers-that-be at Davos he goes to a session on transparency. It’s off-the-record of
