Rambling thoughts on models
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
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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
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Rewriting history…
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
Who says fun is dangerous?
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
And I thought there was only one
Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced
Thoughts for the day
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
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Training pitfalls
John Kay has an article on decision-making in the FT (may vanish behind a paywall soon). This bit caught my eye: Psychologist Gary Klein has studied the expertise of people
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A naive question
Obviously this is too simplistic. But I have this question for anyone who’s got some process to manage human beings in organisations. You know the sort of thing… a process
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Picasso quote
Picasso: There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot
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Bruised guide to facilitation
I got a great email last week from my friend Kay Scorah, which I thought I’d share here verbatim. This week, I have been on a contact improvisation course with
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