My name is Johnnie and I am a Warcraft-aholic.
I’ve been sobre (US readers: sober) for 4 months 2 weeks and 3 days. I have not set foot in Azeroth. My Mage remains a mere, pre-extension level 60. My guild has probably forgotten me.
But now this has just arrived in my email:
I am trusting in a higher power. And I don’t mean a level 70 Warrior.
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
Jack/Zen posts his four laws of networks. I particularly liked his first “Luck = consciousness x transparency”. He explainsLuck is one of the most powerful and accessible currencies in networks
This Fast Company article from 1995 describes how a native American wisdom council gets taken into the corporate world. Interesting stuff. I read it with some anxiety as I fear
Raymond Tse has been on a training programme in communications. This got me thinking about the quality of blog conversations. Certainly there are more voices. The intent is there with
Robert Scoble’s inspired idea to create a book on Corporate Blogging in a largely transparent way prompted me to think about the publishing business. Robert is planning to auction the
