Steve Faktor point out the most of the top 10 happiest jobs involve engaging the senses making a product or helping others. He warns against the downsides of the sedantary online life shuffling powerpoint slides – and in favour of moving and making things.
It makes loads of sense to me, and I certainly could do with applying the wisdom more in my own life.
Hat tip: Tweet from Anne McCrossan
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
Dwight Towers spotted this lovely article: bring the outliers inside. It’s based on the book Positive Deviance. Dwight picked out a lovely Nasrudin parable to illustrate how easy it is
This video really makes me laugh. The humour might be lost on non-players of Warcraft I don’t know. It shows a group of players on a raid. One of them,
Stowe Boyd – In The Shadow Of Big Lies And Big Money Stowe quotes Frank Rich on The Social Network and Gladwell and offers his own take which pretty much
I wanted to log a couple of thoughts about our expectations of how groups will work together. It relates to what I’ve blogged before about closing the field: it’s easy
