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
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’m at Corante’s Marketing Innovation Conference here in New York. There was a short and interesting opening keynote from Russ Klein of Burger King. Now BK is not a brand
Lauren Collister defends emoticons and various other bits of linguistic shorthand against those who insist on the sanctity of language. I know I can be a language pedant tut-tutting the
I laughed when I noticed the entire contents of my schedule in Outlook this morning. I am feeling seriously demob happy.
… of favourite books here’s an old post on why I think The Halo Effect is on my shortlist. Short version: it’s a powerful antidote to most of the glib
