I’ve met some great people over the years at the annual Applied Improv Network conference. This June it’s happening in Baltimore.
I’m not sure if I’ll make it this year even though most of it will be in Open Space which should be pretty awesome with a bunch of improvisers in the room. I’ve learnt so much from the world of improv and I can heartily recommend this as a way to spend 4 days this summer.
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 often like to host meetings with people sitting in a circle. It means everyone can see everyone else and it avoids inadvertently giving too much status to any particular
JP has a good post about how Open Source makes you responsible. He quotes Chuq van Rospach thus: Open source requires you as a manager of IT, or as a
Henry Mintzberg one of my favourite business thinkers lets rip in the WSJ: No More Executive Bonuses! Conventional wisdom seems to take it for granted that finanical incentives are the
Rob Paterson is on the warpath and he has big organisations in his sights. He paints a picture entirely at odds with the ideal put forward by people like Peter
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