I’m an uncomplaining fellow so I’ve not told you that for the last 2 weeks I’ve had very little heating working here at home due to plumbing gremlins. The thermal underwear came out of my ski drawer pretty fast.
This morning a new pump has sorted me out and I can’t tell you how nice it is to have the warmth restored. If the posts here take a suddenly more optimistic tone, you’ll know why.
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
Thanks to Jason McDonald for finding this brilliant clip: What a great example of spotting an assumption everyone makes about how a game is played. Viv and I sometimes talk
I went along to 100% Open‘s networking event in London. There were lots of short talks and plenty of animated conversations after the formal bit. The stand out moment for
Chris Mowles has some droll reflections in response to a 360 degree “leadership” questionnaire. I love his statement of the assumptions implicit in the questions: The tenor of questionnaire conjures
That’s a line from The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. I was reminded of it by this post by Dominic Campbell, reflecting on his facilitation of an event last month
