Just a reminder that Peter Hanke and Rob Poynton are running their workshop, Communication as a Performing Art on November 2nd in London. I’m going there as is Marks Earls plus Roland Harwood from NESTA so I think we’re going to have a very interesting time.
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 just had an email from Gary Hirsch at On Your Feet following up on my post below. I liked his boilerplate: Spelling and Grammar Notice. This e-mail, and any
Rhizome has a very interesting post reflecting on the processes being used by the Occupy movement. It references Ivan Boothe’s post which in turn talks about the tyranny of structurelessness.
What creates engaging relationships? I’d say that the number one “technology” available to all of us is showing up to relationships. (Woody Allen famously said “90% of life is just showing up”). Here are some observations about what I mean by showing up… and what I don’t.
Robert Paterson's Weblog: #Immigration – Asking Better Policy Questions = Getting better results Rob has been exposing himself to lots and lots of conversations about immigration. And doing a lot
