I think I’ll have to try out the new exhibit in the giant Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern gallery. Looks a lot of fun. And a real object of sociality…
Hat tip: Lee McEwan
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
Oli Barrett gives a good summary of In the Wild a Channel 4 conference on the theme of happiness. This description of Nick Baylis‘s contribution caught my eye: Nick’s main
Chris Anderson’s new Long Tail blog is shaping up as a great read. Today he quotes David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again TV is not
Penny Walker describes the challenge of holding space for collaboration. I like her description of the “nested tensions” where hierarchy meets volunteerism: There is pressure – from managers who don’t
I am enthused by the statement David Weinberger posted today from Madrid: The Infrastructure of Democracy Strengthening the Open Internet for a Safer World. I especially liked the third principle
