I don’t know about you (for all I know you’re an Apple or Linux person) but the more I read, the more I think I’ll not be upgrading to Office 2007 or to Windows Vista. I don’t like what I’m hearing and to be honest, I’m quite content with the software I’ve got. Do I want to risk all the gremlins to add to the proportion of features that I don’t understand and will never really use in my software?
Tony’s latest update on Office is a good example of why I’ll stay where I am, thanks.
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
Anita Sharpe picks out a juicy quote from Paul Hawken – “In a postindustrial age, the critical shortages are time and meaning. And people will only give up their time for meaning”
Chris Corrigan orginally pointed me to Peggy Holman and Anne Stadler‘s thinking on Emergent Organisations. This is rich material, and Chris provides a good summary as a way in. In
Whoa! The delightful Bernie de Koven points to this provocative bit of research: Pleasure, Meaning and Eudaimonia from the Authentic Happiness Newsletter. (I haven’t met Eudaimonia or her sister Hedonia
There’s an nteresting – and somewhat depressing – article in the Guardian by Richard Sennett: Out with the old. It casts another light on the problem Douglas Rushkoff identified, mentioned
