- The pitfalls of selling empowerment, write fairly large. You just can't make genuine bottom-up (or I'd prefer peer-to-peer) action by directives from the top. Avoid grandiosity at all costs.
- Great little empowerment morality tale. "So, every day, on a rota, residents opened up in the morning and locked up at night. Every Sunday they had a clean up…However, after a year they discovered that the council was about to employ a play worker. With no consultation, they felt hurt and snubbed. The Sunday clean-up stopped, and the treasured play site deteriorated."
- Nice example of porting ideas from one context to another
- How the FBI pursued, you could say harassed, an innocent man for years, in the belief he was the anthrax killer. With the eager complicity of some journalists who should have known better. (He successfully sued their asses in the end)
Conversational leadership
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
