There may be a high cost to lying. The research suggests habitual lying is correlated with poorer mental and physical health.
Hat tip: This tweet from Richard Wise
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
The Ego and the Self | Steven Pressfield Online I'm not sure about the notion of ego as this objectionable a character but I found this quite a moving reflection
Yesterday the RSA hosted Richard Thaler co-author of Nudge. I found Thaler very engaging and I loved his theme: that we can support a lot of changes in society with
A tweet from Rob Paterson pointed me to John Robb’s post Industrial Education. I’ve thought for a long time that our current university system has become prohibitively expensive and vulnerable
There’s been quite a scare over the Bank of England providing emergency lending to Northern Rock bank. Out of curiosity I wondered how my building society the Chelsea might be
