How’s this for a bit of er… 360 degree appraisal? Staff at a Vancouver coffee house give their boss some useful feedback.
Spotted by AdPulp via Darren Barefoot via Beyond Robson‘s Vancouver Blog.
UPDATE: Phil Gerbyshak has a spot-on comment on this: Employees tend to quit their bosses not their companies
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
Viv is visiting and we’ve been reflecting on our experiences using the problem theatre approach. Borrowing ideas from the maker movement and agile processes we see this a way of
Leonara of Treehugger reflects on this year’s Do Lectures. Lots of good stuff and this line particularly caught my eye: Do Lectures are simply unafraid of being copied because they
I’ve been working on the idea of Unhurried things with Antony Quinn. I posted the other day about Unhurried Conversations. (There are now MeetUps for Cambridge Walthamstow the rest of
It looks like Threshers the UK booze retailer, is discovering the power of viral marketing. It’s not completely clear how pleased they’re going to feel about it. Here’s the scoop
