Geoff Brown writes about a delightful gift from the guys at On Your Feet. Full SP at Geoff’s place, but here’s the nub of it:
What if you had a tiny personal robot that gave you outrageous compliments all day long?
I tweeted about it this morning and what comes in the post an hour or two later? My own one!
A great little social object.
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
Another nugget from The Power of Mindful Learning. Langer talks about soft vigilance. In psychological circles or when danger is involved, attention is often called vigilance. Staying vigilant is a
I suspect the conventional wisdom is that Tiger Woods was the perfect case study in branding until just a few days ago. I’d like to propose that he’s potentially a
Neville Hobson and Shel Holz did an interview with John Windsor and me as part of Corante’s Innovative Marketing Conference here in New York. The theme was co-creation. You can
Olivier Blanchard and John Moore both picked up on Jack Trout’s views on Word of Mouth marketing. Jack’s position boils down to this: If I go to all this trouble
