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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
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Scaling or evolving?
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Leadership, narcissism and what we really want
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
P2P application from a refugee camp
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
Jersey
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Badgers and the joy of complexity
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
More on what is marketing…
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
The revolution will not be televised…
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
Chautauqua
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Microsoft’s embarassing metadata
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
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The cult of innovation
Martin Belam posts about Andy Budd‘s presentation. I liked this as I’m wary of the reverence given to innovation. Budd suggests that many people/organisations/things that we think of as very
14 April 2010
Cows eating grass as revolutionary statement
Rob spotted this fascinating and somewhat dispiriting story: ‘Cows eat grass’ and other inflammatory statements. The Dean of an Agricultural School claims to have no opinion on whether cows evolved
18 January 2011
Why can’t we get things done?
I loved this old post about Jeffrey Peffer’s work from his book the Knowing-Doing Gap. Here’s a snippet: The truth is that business school is all about talking, not doing.
30 January 2013
Difficult conversations part 6 – Meeting room vs kitchen
So here’s the next video on Difficult Conversations (you can find the whole set here.) Kay and I have a bit of fun looking at the difference between surface politeness
28 February 2014