I loved Dave’s post about the village which took road safety into its own hands. Frustrated by bureaucratic delays to safety measures, they ran a competition to create scare-cars to deter speeding.
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
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
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
I used that phrase back in February. I think it’s a good way to describe a way of thinking about how to respond to what’s created by Web 2.0: you
A good article from the Market Research industry trade mag highlights some of the pitfalls of focus groups – how sometimes they reduce the sense of connection with the customer.
Earlier this month I helped facilitate the Show Me The Change conference in Melbourne. We mostly used an Open Space format with some added opening activities and the fun of
In Are you lovin’ it? Tom Asacker has a great post elaborating on David Ogilvy’s comment that “Agencies waste countless hours concocting slogans of incredible fatuity.” For every vaguely memorable
