I asked Curt to read my latest half-finished draft for More Space and give me some feedback. He read it and said what he thought, which was a mixture of stuff he liked and quite a few things he didn’t. There’s no substitute for constructive criticism, and it made me hack away at it, stripping out some chunks and adding a few others. Then I left it alone for four days. Now it looks much better.
So thanks, Curt. Now, I’m trying to psych myself up for another push of the peanut.
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
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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Dave Pollard does a great summary of Nassim Taleb’s thinking. I’m very interested in all the cognitive biases listed there; it’s so easy for us humans to think we know
One week to run until James’ and my first Open Sauce Workshop. I’m starting to get quite excited about it. We’ve got a mix of folks from business and non-profits
Viv and I have been kicking around some materials to use for facilitator training and I’ve been wrestling with my resistance to making definitive statements about facilitation. Versus the need
I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of how networks could change the way we live our lives. David Weinberger lists a few fascinating projects that use web technologies to
