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
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
This is another extract from Viv’s and my new book, Nothing Is Written (free to download). In Monty Python’s Life of Brian the eponymous antihero is fleeing a brigade of
Lara Logan You Suck — RollingStone.com Matt Taibbi slams the mainstream media for protecting the powerful instead of looking after their readers. It needed saying. russell davies: cognitive surplus –
From the time we were little children my brother.. and myself lived together played together, worked together and, in fact, thought together. We usually owned all of our toys in
I often use Open Space working with groups. I suspect that we often choose approaches that have something to teach us… a bit like the saying We all teach what
