I loved this tweet from @charlesfrith:
I see people defining a successful self as a self that can keep up with its email https://bit.ly/bIfaLx
I think it’s so easy to conflate drudgery with productivity; and productivity with success.
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
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
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
Christopher Carfi says I’m a Maven alongside some other rather more illustrious examples. Thanks Christopher! [AFTERTHOUGHT]Now if Christopher could just sort me out with the Connector and Salesman, a la
Jon Husband has an excellent post on work design. Here’s a taster: companies the world over have expended tens, scores if not hundreds of millions of dollars on large integrated
Another reason I like the problem theatre/action storming approach is it’s good example of moving to a peer-to-peer model of working with groups. If I’m the coach/trainer I do play
