Hugh‘s fallen in love with his new tablet PC and it shows.
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
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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
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
And I thought there was only one
Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced
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Teams
Rob Paterson quotes William Manchester, describing why he jumped hospital ship to rejoin his wartime unit and face near-certain death: And then, in one of those great thundering jolts in
23 August 2006
The evaluation hamburger…
.. is new one on me. It’s a euphemism for the famous “feedback sandwich”. I prefer the third option which you can find in this engaging post on the Castleton
17 December 2008
Down under
I’ve just arrived in Christchurch New Zealand. The long, long journey (24 hours in 2 legs) was actually quite ok, even though I am completely jetlagged. I flew with Singapore
1 November 2004
A tale of two CEOs
The egonomics blog contrasts two responses by CEOs to the question: what did you first do on getting to the Executive Suite? First Mulally (Ford): “I always keep a camera
16 April 2007
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