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
I enjoyed this Harvard Working Knowledge paper: Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting. It’s an engaging and welcome counterblast to much conventional BS about SMART
Dwight Towers reminds me of the Russian guy Vygotsky and his concept of the Zone of Proximal Development. Fancy jargon but quite an interesting concept. Vygotsky suggests this is the
The label “plenary vortex” occurred to me the other day. It describes something quite destructive that seems to happen a lot in meetings of much size. Once you get more
Years ago in his book Megatrends John Naisbitt’s best chapter was about High Tech, High Touch. He preseciently forecast a world where there’d be high technology and a compensating enthusiasm
