At last! End those watched-pot-never-boils-blues. You’ll be able to turn on your kettle by sending an SMS. No doubt it plays the theme tune from “EastEnders”. [Hat tip: The Bumble Bee]
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
Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced
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
An interesting experiment conducted by the egonomics team. We took 500 managers and executives from the same organization and separated them into 125 teams with four people per team. Then
I’ve been resisting commenting on the recent furore about bullying in the blogosphere for at least three reasons. 1 I don’t want to add any fuel to the flames 2
Workshop: Implementing Knowledge Cafes for Organizational Purpose 13 Sep 2011, London, United Kingdom (Gurteen Knowledge) I am a big fan of simple formats that let people "just" talk. Just in
So my sample of Stormhoek has arrived along with Hugh‘s excellent little booklet. The booklet starts by talking about an experiment in disruptive marketing, and only gets round to pitching
