The idea of “happiness for people who can’t stand postive thinking” is like catnip for someone like me. In this trailer for his book Oliver Burkeman eloquently pushes back against goal orientation and what I’d call effortful striving. How nice to have a bit of philosophy brought into the discussion, and a way of thinking that is usually squeezed out of organisation-speak.
Hat tip: Viv channelling Stephen Fry
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
I love the wiki for the Reboot conference. Lots of simple features to engage and connect flesh out ideas and get involved with the content in advance of the event
This blog is not mainly a travelogue but I thought I’d share my experience of Auckland (other than the airport bus, see below). I’ve spent the last month mainly on
Pranksters give a phone company a taste of its own medicine. (Click here if you can’t see the embedded video) Hat tip: Boing Boing
Just as fish may not notice the water they swim in, so we miss the impact of language on our choices
