As regular readers know I am a massive Monty Python fan. And having caught up with this (via Geoff Jones), now even more so!
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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
Over at Fast Company, Heath Row reflects on offsites. He shares Cheryl Dahle’s article Can This Off-Site be Saved?. I’m a sceptic about offsites; it’s all too easy to go
I’m blogging this from Calgary Airport on my way home from Banff. During Open Space at the AIN conference I started a conversation about the shadow side of improv, suggesting
Sherry Turkle is an MIT professor who is fascinated by conversation. This article on her ideas made sense to me. Conversations, as they tend to play out in person, are
From the new (and rather good) Four Groups Blog: Costs and Quality. Bruce Lewin spotted this on the mailing list of UK-HRD. Nothing personal – this happens every couple of
