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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Planning as drowning
Antonio Dias offers a fascinating description of what goes wrong when drowning: What separates a swimmer from someone drowning is the way a swimmer acknowledges
Leadership as holding uncertainty
Viv picks out some nice ideas from Phelim McDermott on the subject of leadership. “We love the security of the illusion that someone is in
Concreting Complexity
I’ve been thinking about the urge to scale things lately – see here and here. I understand the concern with being able to effect big
The absurd
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
Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
I really enjoy Chris Rodgers’ views on leadership. He argues against the assumption that it takes great leadership for organisations to succeed. He suggests that
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
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
Well now you need wonder no more. A friend told me about this (no, seriously… my Feedster feed on improvisation turned it up). Is it
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
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Purpose
Another terrific RSA video: Dan Pink on what really motivates us. (I blogged more on this here.) This is the tip of an iceberg of evidence… so you have to
24 May 2010
links for 2010-03-09
Shareable: Can We Design Cities for Happiness? “If we in the Third World measure our success or failure as a society in terms of income we would have to classify
9 March 2010
Threepenny words and facilitation
Why avoiding too much detail is usually good in facilitation
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links for 2010-04-19
Stephen Billing’s Blog » Are You Using the Wrong Leadership Competencies? I've always cringed at that word competencies. Rivals the word "tools" as my most loathed bits of HR speak.
19 April 2010