Here’s one Mark will appreciate: Contagious Yawn “Sign of Empathy”. Apparently neuroscience suggests that people who yawn a lot are more empathetic. In the research the Beeb report,
Psychology students were more susceptible to contagious yawning, and scored significantly higher on the empathy test than did the engineering students.
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
I’m not saying it’s always a bad idea. But it usually is. I mean the conventional thing we seem to do after listening to presentations: the audience is invited to
Regular readers will know I’m a big fan of improv and one of my early teachers was Gary Schwartz. You’re not likely to meet a more passionate character and you
Ari Melber has an interesting article – Web Puts Dog-Whistle Politics on a Leash. He looks at how many previously effective coded attacks are now exposed to public view –
Robert Paterson is in the toppest-of-top form today in his entry Unjobbing. A few snippets: All the rules of the old culture are based on the assumptions that the most
