Richard Wilson writes about the urgency of libel reform in the UK and the likelihood of rich vested interests lobbying to block it. I’m happy to join today’s mass blog on this and hope you’ll consider signing the campaign petition and maybe even chipping in financially.
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
Chris Corrigan quotes from this piece on Facilitating Dialogue. There are few facilitation skills more important that the ability to keep quiet… A good facilitator creates a vacuum of leadership
M*A*S*H* Up with Improv Scientists & Alan Alda | Yes and Space Geoff Jones found this 10min video of Alan Alda using improv games to show scientists how to connect
Rob Paterson and I have come up with an idea for a series of podcasts we’re calling The ‘Phoric. That’s phoric as in euphoric metaphoric and maybe some other phorics
I linked to this paper on wicked problems the other day and Chris Corrigan commented “there’s a lot in that paper eh?”. Which is true. Here’s another part of it
