According to the Guardian,
The most expensive state school in Britain will have no playground. The Cambridgeshire authorities in charge of the new £46.4m Thomas Deacon city academy in Peterborough believe a lack of outside space will avoid the danger of ‘uncontrollable’ groups of children running around at break time.
Hat tip: Dave Snowden who is about as thrilled by this notion as I am.
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
What Makes Finnish Kids So Smart? – WSJ.com Finnish education seems to do really well without the pressures of standardised testing and intense competition – things a lot of people
I loved Chris Corrigan’s post about Alan Watts‘ views on trust and control. Here’s a snippet: …many societies, including traditional Chinese society and I would argue, many First Nations societies
I was rereading this post from 2008 this morning and thinking again about this little model, spotted then by Roland Harwood. The gist of the post, and Roland’s argument, was
Shannon Cooper has found a bar that’s like a stock market. Here’s another one for the “I wish I had thought of that” file… I read today about a new
