- A bit of philosophy for a Monday morning… HT Rob Paterson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

So I just posted about the pitfalls of treating complex change as if it is merely complicated. I see this happening on a smaller scale in areas like training and

Tom Asacker expresses his frustration with the marketing profession citing the thought that marketing is the devil. In particular, he takes exception to US Army advertising by sponsoring sports matches.

I suppose much of this will be lost on those of you who’ve avoided World of Warcraft but this YouTube cracks me up. And captures quite a lot of the

Antony Quinn and I were shooting the breeze over coffee yesterday putting up the booking page for our Difficult Conversations workshop. He dug up some other workshops with a similar