
Spotted on the staircase at The Hub Melbourne.

Spotted on the staircase at The Hub Melbourne.
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

Geoff Brown tweeted this TED video: I wrote the other day about the pitfalls of labelling some emotions as “negative” and trying to avoid them. It’s interesting to see how

Penny Walker describes the challenge of holding space for collaboration. I like her description of the “nested tensions” where hierarchy meets volunteerism: There is pressure – from managers who don’t

I’ve been enthusiastic about improv for years. But I’m not that good at performing it. I think it’s in the category of things where the more you do it the

I’ve been meaning for some time to put together a short e-book. Working title: First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Brand Consultants. I want to say