This tweet from Assistant Chief Constable Garry Shewan caught my eye.
With respect I am unsure what the Home Secretary thinks that she told GMP to do different. She listened but said nothing. Tactics were ours!
I think twitter so lowers the threshold for “publishing” that we start putting into the record things more spontaneously. I think it’s one of the ways it subverts more rigid hierarchy and eats away at the power of those at the top.
Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by
(This is the second in a series of somewhat ranty posts I started the other day. General theme: is a lot of the fuss and
A while ago I wrote about action theatre. It was inspired by Bruce Schneier’s term security theatre, to describe tiresome security measures at airports etc
Dominic Campbell’s challenge to clumsy government procurement has the best title of the year – It’s Time People Got Fired for Hiring IBM. The rest
Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work
I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that
Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I’m fond of talking about “relationships before ideas” and Tim seems to be in similar
I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s
Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question.
Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative
Another part of Cathy Davidson’s article that caught my eye was her discussion of term papers in college. She asks a question I’ve been asking for a while now: What
Rob has a thoroughly thought-provoking post about mushrooming healthcare costs. I think Rob finds quests for “efficiency” as suspicious as I do.
I had an excellent chat with Mark McGuinness on Friday. One of things Mark has been championing lately is enthusiasm. I’m particularly struck by his notion that focussing on enthusiasm
Matt Moore on fabulous ironic form referring to someone who banned his daughter from sending texts because they were “content free”: Following his example I have banned people from hugging
