Another terrific RSA video: Dan Pink on what really motivates us. (I blogged more on this here.) This is the tip of an iceberg of evidence… so you have to ask: why do so many of our organisations have such a massive hierarchy of financial incentives? And what is this costing us as a society in lost productivity, purpose and meaning?
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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
Up in Golden Bay I really liked the Mussel Inn. I laughed at the way the owners deter the use of cell phones, as shown in this picture of the
Viv and I have been beavering away on alternative versions of our book Creative Facilitation Here it is in ePub format, suited to things like Kobo, Nook and loads of
Make Little Bets for Innovation Success « Innovation Leadership Network Tim Kastelle does a useful digest of the book Little Bets (tags: crumbs!)
Viv and I have been using improv activities based on gibberish these past weeks as part of our work exploring ways of faciltiation. Gibberish in the world of improv, is
