This is way off the admittedly wide path I normally tread here. But for readers in the states who don’t know who George Galloway is look out. He’s testifying on Capitol Hill next week and it should be… interesting. Another Galloway link.
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
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
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
In his book Dialog William Isaacs tells a strange story. A woman wakes in the night to find herself being strangled by an unseen foe. After struggling in the dark,
Foresight crowd sourcing Dave Snowden's doing an experiment in collecting stories around the future of public services. It's a novel approach that could subvert "expert researchers" & I recommend giving
My evil twin brother Matt is running some interesting posts on brainstorming. I’m a bit sceptical about most of the luggage that goes with brainstorms and said so. Matt rightly
Nira Liberman and Oren Shapira explore the relationship between love and creativity. I’m generally excited to see the L word invoked in exploring how new ideas emerge, and the article
