Over coffee this morning, Alejandro Ribo Anne McCrossan and I shared some favourite Python moments. He’s just posted one of his.
We talked about the state of the world and some shared frustration at the apparently slow nature of some changes. Then I recalled that change is not always linear, which the Python boys understood well before the fall of the Berlin Wall. (Here’s a link if you can’t see the embed below.)
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
Lisa Haneberg is continuing her thoughts about stopping performance appraisals. If you have a system that is damaging and everyone hates why do you need a replacement? Why not just
Archives: How Robert Scoble Compares to the Top PR Firms Interesting, if mischievous, comparison of Scoble’s web presence vs large PR firms, in which Scoble wins, hands down. Yeah I
Sean challenges me (and a few others) to come clean about our shameful past. Specifically our shameful past in playing along with half-hearted/half-baked customer research. Let’s face it, this particular
Great spot by Tom Asacker: Scientists have identified a hormone to create trust. What I love about stories like this is their potentially disruptive influence on established best practice!
