It seems that a serious candidate for the Presidency of the United States makes light of torture. Rudy Giuliani quips about sleep deprivation and thinks that whether waterboarding is torture depends on who is doing it.
There are those who equate being President with leading the free world. I don’t think that’s a sustainable view at the moment.
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
In his book Dialogue and the art of thinking together William Isaacs tells of a charged meeting of Russians and Chechens. At the first toast of the evening the negotiatior/facilitator
How’s this for a bit of er… 360 degree appraisal? Staff at a Vancouver coffee house give their boss some useful feedback. Spotted by AdPulp via Darren Barefoot via Beyond
The brothers JibJab have released another raucous animation (you can download Good to be in DC from their website). taking the mickey out of the US election. Not quite on
I’m a sucker for stories of psychological experiments, especially ones containing the word ostensibly. You know, the ones where the subjects think the experiment is about one thing but really
