Nice provocative thought from Earl Mardle:
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”
Corollary, you end up with a business that only produces measurements. There’s no point being up to your ass in KPI’s when the original intention was to drill for oil.
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
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
Yesterday I got an email from Loren Ekroth of Conversation Matters. It touches on a favourite theme of mine and here it is verbatim. “Christmas
I found this after seeing a similar clip on Facebook. I find it mesmerising. There are times when I see only a mess and then you see order. The transitions can
I’m more and more aware of how non-linear most great meetings are. Some of the most satisfying conversations and facilitations I’ve been involved in lately have rambled around a lot
I’m not a fan of jargon but I do have a soft spot for “disintermediation”. It’s what happens to industries where a middleman is rendered obsolete by innovation. It has
I agree with Chris Corrigan: Somehow, the view of learning in the world has been confused with the kinds of quality control that is attached to manufacturing. We imagine that
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