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
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
Christopher Carfi talked about comment feeds on the latest Hobson & Holtz report. And Jackie from Customer Evangelists commented on the fullest feed I do. So I’ve uploaded a couple
Chris Lawer likes First Direct‘s new podcasts. They are probably the only bank I know where customers would be willing to “listen in” to what it has to say. But
Charlie Beckett POLIS Director » Blog Archive » Embracing Uncertainty: diplomacy and disruption "Authority hates uncertainty. Big business and government feel safest when life is predictable and stable. Change implies
Yesterday evening I got to meet Evelyn Rodgriguez of Crossroads Dispatches fame. We knocked back a couple of good beers in the Duke of Cambridge. We shared our enthusiams for
