Alek Kjerulf writes about business culture. A Dutch sociologist asseses several factors including something called a Power Distance Index (how hierarchical) and Uncertainty Avoidance Index (how scared of ambiguity).
The Danes are low on hierarchy and can handle a lot of uncertainty, which apparently makes them happy. I like the sound of that.
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
This morning I recorded a podcast with Viv McWaters. Viv’s a fellow facilitator and we shot the breeze about a few common interests. Download the Podcast (30m, 10.5 MB) Podcast
Excellent piece by Anne Zelenka in Web Worker Daily. The busyness economy works on face time, incremental improvement strategic long-term planning, return on investment, and hierarchical control. The burst economy,
I took part in a market research street interview on Friday. I was ushered into a room over a pub and was sat in front of a Tablet PC. It
According to Stuart Henshall 5% of all international voice traffic is now going over Skype and rising exponentially. This prompts me to bring out my Disintermediate Dalek for a second
