Picasso:
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Hat tip: Dave Snowden
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that this is where they are
Tony Goodson tips me off to Audioblogging. Suw Charman is trying it for a week and I’m going to see how it works. First reaction: I like hearing her voice;
I’m trying to find someone who is a whizz with Movable Type 3.0+ to help me migrate an organisation’s website into a blog format. I’m reasonably good with the software
The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? by Marcia Angell | The New York Review of Books Fascinating and disturbing review of research suggesting that anti-depressants are either ineffective or dangerously
