I wonder if I am alone in being a little bored of conversations about the difference between ‘innovation’ and ‘creativity’. The same goes for ‘leadership’ and ‘management’.
Most of the time I sense these are really a sort of one upmanship where the speaker’s propostion boils down to this: innovation is the creativity that I approve of. And leadership is the management that I approve of. (And possibly want you to pay extra for)
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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
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
Viv and I will be hosting a one day workshop on Creative Facilitation. It’s on Monday July 15th, at Wallacespace St Pancras. We’ve offered this training in various formats as
I’ve just read Matthew May’s book, In Pursuit of Elegance. It’s an easy succinct read and contains some engaging ideas. There’s a fascinating section looking at the work of Jackson
Tim Kitchin at the Glasshouse blog picks up the branding debate. It’s a lucid summary of several strands of the debate. Here’s a snippet The proliferation of factual information and
I’m making some more little videos reflecting on the business of working with people. This first one was prompted by looking at the sales pitches of training companies at a
