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Rambling thoughts on models
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
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Planning as drowning
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
Leadership as holding uncertainty
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
Concreting Complexity
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
The absurd
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
Leadership as emergent, co-created and unheroic
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
Rewriting history…
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
Who says fun is dangerous?
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
Yes, and…
A quick ramble on the nature of paradox, inspired by a blog on the value of both fear of the new and curiosity
Ever wondered what it’s like to work in a porn shop?
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
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Reicheld on Loyalty
Another gem from the ecsw newsletter. Fred Reicheld on loyalty: There’s a paradox at the core of loyalty. Business is the pursuit of self-interest. Loyalty implies self-sacrifice. So business loyalty
5 October 2004
Is innovation bad for us?
Karl-Erik Sveiby has a new book out, Challenging the Innovation Paradigm, and here’s a four page pdf summary. It suggests that it’s only in recent generations that innovation has been
25 April 2012
Mistakes
Dave Snowden cites this great story from a commenter to his earlier post on the perils of six sigma. When I worked at IBM we were asked (in 1990) to
9 June 2008
Shallow lessons…
Steve Moore pointed me to this article by John Kay: Shallow lesson of business books. It’s a succinct counterblast to the plethora of “do it like me” business books and
31 August 2007