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 in a year of conversation.” – Plato
“Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you work will. I never worked a day in my life.” – Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA’s oldest practicing physician.
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
Often at the end of a lively open space, there are participants who say things would have been better with more structure, and/or express anxiety that things may have happened
I see the word “leading” used all the time to describe organsations. Nearly always it means that the company is not the biggest in its sector but desperately needs us
Dwight Towers spotted this lovely article: bring the outliers inside. It’s based on the book Positive Deviance. Dwight picked out a lovely Nasrudin parable to illustrate how easy it is
So it’s official. I look like… At least I do according to Star Estimator (Thanks to MeZack for this exercise in vanity.) —–
