Rambling thoughts on models
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
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Planning as drowning
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
Leadership as holding uncertainty
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
Concreting Complexity
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
The absurd
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
Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
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
Rewriting history…
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
Who says fun is dangerous?
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
Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
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
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Jersey
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them a public airing. It was
19 September 2003
Innovation is at the Edges
Synchronicity or what. Dave Pollard on The Medici Effect: …most innovations occur in intersections (the ‘spaces’ where different disciplines, cultures or specialized domains of knowledge meet. Meanwhile, Evelyn Rodriguez says
24 September 2004
I’m not bored, I’m empathetic
Here’s one Mark will appreciate: Contagious Yawn “Sign of Empathy”. Apparently neuroscience suggests that people who yawn a lot are more empathetic. In the research the Beeb report,Psychology students were
11 September 2007
Grrrr
My relative silence recently is partly due to having had no broadband access for more than a week. This is all courtesy of BT who seem each day to deny
10 April 2005