Nice post by Sue Pelletier on culutural biases against introverts. As one of these I identified with her comment:
Being a hard-core introvert myself I tend to get pretty drained from the stuff so many planners seem to thrive on, and need down time to regroup and re-energize (I wonder how many closet introverts we have among planners, who like me collapse after a long day of interacting with people?)
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
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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
Harold Jarche asks very provocatively: Is management on the table? We falsely believe we can manage the future based on the past. Researchers have shown experts do worse than laypeople
I’ve learnt a lot from Chris Corrigan and the way I’ve learnt it has been interesting to me. For example I’d hear Chris emphasise that facilitation is a practice. At
Facilitation means different things to different people. Viv does a great job of explaining one view of facilitation she doesn’t subscribe to. Me neither. …the group participants sit back and
I’m becoming more and more enthusiastic about Skype (the peer-to-peer voice conversation over the net thingy). Stuart Henshall blogs a lot about it and I agree with him: this is
