I’ve recently upgraded to Movable Type 3.14 and made some other changes “under the bonnet” (US:hood). If you run into any problems commenting or tracking back I’d appreciate an email…
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
Ok, James and I have now got a website – opensaucelive.com for our Open Sauce Workshops. And a couple of early bookings for the first one. James has just published
Preoccupations's Bookmarks on Delicious David Smith's links for 4 and 5 Dec – a superb compliation of coverage of wikileaks.
When Viv and I were training facilitators earlier this year, some of the liveliest sessions were the ones on status. We used a series of improv games to explore how
Clay Shirky being brilliantly engaging. Apparently, when Britain first industrialised for a long time the way people dealt with the trauma of suddenly being in urban density was.. gin. Gin
