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
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
I got quite excited when I found out that Islington is going to get wireless broadband at what seemed like good rates. The company providing this is called Now. Over
This weekend an experimental Thinking Hotel is happening in Soho, London over 24 hours from Saturday to Sunday noon. Here’s the essence:The Thinking Hotel is a vision of a future
While Viv was over last month, we had time to shoot a new video about our facilitation training and drop in some footage from our Cambridge workshop. Here’s the result:
This June I’ll be helping to facilitate at Connect + Act, an event organised by the Campaign to End Loneliness. It’s one of the paradoxes of our uber-connected world that
