I loved this quote tweeted by Leigh Carter via Ben Watson
There are no great people in this world only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. – William Halsey
It saddens and frustrates me that some of those ordinary people spend the rest of their lives trying to bolster the notion of heroism as inherent in their identity. I imagine you can all think of a few examples.
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
Chris Carfi identifies the money quote in Erik Keller’s article Pushing a “Pull Model” “Now this approach may be seen as foolhardy by those who believe that products are always
I was having a chat about faciliation with Rob Paterson on Skype and he came up with the analogy of dressage. If you watch this (amazing) Youtube of a horse
Chris Corrigan highlights this quote from Paulo Coelho. When someone makes a decision he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never
This is interesting: Results of an experiment in risk and uncertainty management. Short version: talking about risk narrows the amount of information you will gather; talking about uncertainty leads to
