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
These came to be via Tony Quinlan from Terry Tillman at 227company. “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than
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
Andrew Sullivan quotes Tolstoy: It seems to every administrator that it is only by his efforts that the whole population under his rule is kept going, and in this consciousness
I talk a lot about the importance of social objects – stuff for people to talk about – in marketing and the idea that successful brands naturally create a lot
It’s a grey day in London so I’m maintaining my morale by thinking of Cable Bay in New Zealand. That’s where I’m spending Christmas and New Year with friends who
Dan Pallotta makes a lot of sense to me. More often than not we see life through a barely translucent movie screen in our minds that is running nine shows
