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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Swift trust and incentives to block it
Stowe Boyd reflects on swift trust a way that groups of freelances can work together bypassing the more elaborate bonding processes often invented by organisations. Here’s how he defines it:
26 June 2012
Self-organising
Sukumar at PSFK reports Merill Lynch have asked their Financial Advisors (FAs) to organize themselves into teams of 2-4 FAs to manage the client relationship. Interestingly these teams are formed
2 December 2005
The Tyranny of Excellence
I liked Tim Kastelle’s recent post of the value of gumption in innovation. It’s a rich topic but I’d summarise my sense of gumption as the capacity to keep going
2 January 2012
Imperfection
Viv sent me something Harrison Owen posted on the Open Space listserv. In our (understandable and necessary) pursuit of High Performance we make the seemingly obvious assumption that we might
2 February 2011
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