This flash movie on Bush vs Kerry – This Land is My Land – made me smile. (It takes a while to load up) I love the inventiveness of these things and repeat viewing shows the funny details. My favourite bits of this are the little cameo appearances by Howard Dean and Bill Clinton.
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
Dave Snowden has just posted online a book chapter he has written with Cynthia Kurtz called Bramble Bushes in a Thicket. It’s about the “relationship between narrative and learning networks.
What if we focus on the ideas that are so sticky they don’t need a post-it note? How often do we leave meetings where the walls are festooned with post-its?
In preparation for a visit by Tim Berners-Lee, the folks at NESTA asked people via twitter to send in short statements of their best hopes and worst fears for the
I’m continuing to have thoughts in response to reading Herd probably because Mark Earls’ position so often reverberates with mine. There’s nothing like having one’s prejudices supported. Like me Mark
