Apologies for the travelogue for those looking for meatier posts… yesterday’s stop on the tour of NZ found me boating on the Marlborough Sound on the north east end of the South Island. Another away-from-it-all location. Here’s me (in dayglo orange) with my friend/host Tom.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
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
Dominic Campbell took this pic at an event yesterday and tweeted: Mr @johnniemoore getting people talking at Surrey Council I saw the tweet and idly wondered if people might feel
I really liked what Tim Kastelle says here. He asks us to think about what innovation is for.. something that seems left unsaid in a lot of writing on the
My friend Olaf Brugman has invited me to take part in a workshop in Brussels on October 29th. It looks set to be an interesting gathering of Knowledge Managment gurus
Charlie Beckett POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Embracing Uncertainty: diplomacy and disruption "Authority hates uncertainty. Big business and government feel safest when life is predictable and stable. Change implies
