I’ve picked these from twitter in the last day or so.
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’–it’s ‘that’s funny'” Isaac Asimov via @dearsarah
Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.– Julius Charles Hare via @oncevision
I am always doing things I can’t do, that’s how I get to do them.” Pablo Picasso, also via oncevision
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
Doug Rushkoff kicked off day two of the Personal Democracy Forum with a nice counterblast to excessive individualism. Here’s the video. He fears we pay too much attention to web
Alain Jourdier points to the fascinating Institute for Infinitely Small Things who are compiling a database of Corporate Commands. Snppet: WHAT IS A CORPORATE COMMAND? A Corporate Command is an
I enjoyed this interactive exercise in comparative anatomy from fellow improviser Chris Yukna. Unfortunately our researchers have not completed their investigation of male of the human species. We thought with
I wonder how it is I’ve never come across Otto Rank before. He was a close associate of Freud but they fell out when Rank started to question some of
