Adriana spotted this (via Ugly Doggy) and it made me laugh (and want to cry, a little.)
And if you liked that you’ll forgive me for reminding you of this one:
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 agree with Andrew Sullivan’s analysis: America has exchanged some if its basic freedoms for the patina of phony security – and so easily… We have terrible enemies abroad seeking
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
Another reason why Kathy Sierra is on my must-read list. Bonus link: Olivier Blanchard riffs on the same theme. Tom Asacker picked out this bit “The burger joint isn’t an
My friends at Pipeline are doing a little barnraising on December 4th in the form of an event called Good for Nothing. A group of geeks tinkerers and ideas people
