Dwight Towers has a fascinating post comparing the results of the famous Milgram experiements (in which people were alarming willing to inflict suffering on others at the behest of authority) with other work and stories demonstrating a quite different aspect of human nature. Lots of food for thought.
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
Following the debate on airport scanning I keep seeing versions of a particular kind of argument. It takes this form: I’d rather be groped/x-rayed than blown up by a terrorist
Seth’s having a pop at benchmarking and I agree with him. It’s all too easy to look at numbers and not allow ourselves to explore the richness and subtlety of human experience.
Viv and I have been having long conversations lately about edges: the interesting areas where we learn new things, areas that are a bit uncertain and uncomfortable… but also interesting.
John Moore (the Texan one) has kindly posted links to pdfs of the presentations to the recent Word of Mouth Marketing conference. Some of these are pretty interesting. Especially this
