I’ve pencilled 16th June in my diary for Russell’s fab idea: Interesting.
Rambling thoughts on models
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
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Planning as drowning
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
Leadership as holding uncertainty
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
Concreting Complexity
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
The absurd
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
Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
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
Rewriting history…
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
Who says fun is dangerous?
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
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
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
And I thought there was only one
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
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links for 2010-03-22
Slumdog reveals learning treasures |Education |The Guardian "Most British children grow up with the internet and have the means to learn what they want in minutes and this challenges the
22 March 2010
The perils of conviction
David Gurteen has an excellent post on the dangers of speaking with conviction. As I started to read it I thought to myself “oh, this is like the stuff Ellen
24 June 2013
Network effects…
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage?, asks Duncan Watts in the New York Times magazine. His research suggests that market success is hugely affected by a network effect,
19 April 2007
Problems, problems…
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
24 October 2006