Hat tip: Vic McWaters
Rambling thoughts on models
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
Hat tip: Vic McWaters
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
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity

Synchronicity or what. Dave Pollard on The Medici Effect: …most innovations occur in intersections (the ‘spaces’ where different disciplines, cultures or specialized domains of knowledge meet. Meanwhile, Evelyn Rodriguez says

Jonah Lehrer spotted an interesting report in the Wall St Journal. It suggests that our impulse control is reduced when our brains are overloaded – and they get overloaded easily.

Craig Newmark, writing in the Neiman Foundation’s new report has lots of interesting things to say about how journalism and “citizen journalism” might develop. However I wanted to highlight this

Why People Smoke Weed | elephant journal A bit of philosophy for a Monday morning… HT Rob Paterson