Keith Sawyer spots some research that looked at some famous “loner” creatives and found that their most creative periods coincided with less social isolation.
Beyond marshmallow motorbikes
Improv can still be powerful when it’s mundane
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Fierce collaboration
Finding space for stronger feelings in collaboration
The joy of conversation
I’ve just had a delightful meeting with Emma Cahill co-founder of publishing house Snowbooks. They describe their approach thus: We publish far fewer titles than
Collaboration
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking – and worrying – about collaboration. I think the ability to collaborate effectively is becoming ever more essential
David Bowie says IP is in for a bashing
The Church of the Customer blog quotes an NY Times interview with David Bowie who says: I’m fully confident that copyright for instance, will no
Thinking or Doing?
I spend too much time thinking. A friend revealed to me recently that he would describe me to acquaintances as a brain on a stick.
Denham Gray on the unspoken
No sooner do I finish my last blog than I stumble on Denham Grey’s eloquent thoughts: Wonder if you can really capture tacit knowledge by
Speaking the unspoken
I’ve been thinking a lot about what goes unspoken in the world in general and in my little slice of it in particular. There I
Upcoming events
I’ve always really enjoyed speaking in public. Don’t know why, just do. So I’m chuffed that a couple of interesting events have come up for
Verna Allee
I’m just back from Brussels where I took part in the conference “Knowledge Sharing in Networked NGOs” organised by Olaf Brugman in his role as
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Facilitation workshop
I’m planning a one-day workshop for facilitators on July 18th in London. As in the past the format will be loosely structured and highly experiential. Details here.
14 April 2008
Podcast: Zopa Revisited
A few days ago James and I revisited two of the founders of Zopa James Alexander and Dave Nicholson. Zopa is the “eBay for money” who I first podcast about
13 February 2006
Innovation the most abused word?
I found a lot to agree with in Patrick Thibodeau’s article Innovation is the most abused word in tech The iPad is about as innovative as the toaster. You can
30 August 2012