A question that often comes up is how to make inspiration more solid and stable, and not confined to brief flashes. And the answer in one way or another, is always to turn the question around and see how we still resist it. We are Inspiration…. It’s how we avoid and resist this recognition that we need to look at.
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
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Umair at bubblespace draws attention to the success of MakeUpAlley. Here’s a nice irony: a site about cosmetics that looks pretty scruffy but is hugely effective – because it provides
In the midst of a great meeting a couple of days ago with Tim Kitchin and Paul Goodison we shared a grumble about one or two client contacts who were
Mark Lloyd gives some generous feedback on the Open Sauce Surgery session with James and me. Thanks Mark and congrats on getting your blog off the ground. What I would
Chris Rodgers makes some good points about how ideas about complexity get translated – and watered down – in organisations. …many of the arguments put forward simply clothe conventional management
