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
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
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
(This is the first of a series of posts talking about alternative ways of creating brands that are socially useful and economically sustainable) I want to talk about modesty a
Stowe Boyd: Unconferences: But Aren’t There More Dimensions? Stowe has some interesting thoughts about the idea of unconferences – efforts to get away from the general mediocrity of traditional top-down
I think we’ve barely scratched the surface of how networks could change the way we live our lives. David Weinberger lists a few fascinating projects that use web technologies to
Ethan Zuckerman blogs a talk by Jonah Lehrer at Poptech. When we’ve got hard problems we turn them over to experts. That might be the wrong thing to do Lehrer
