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At last! End those watched-pot-never-boils-blues. You’ll be able to turn on your kettle by sending an SMS. No doubt it plays the theme tune from “EastEnders”. [Hat tip: The Bumble Bee]

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Rambling thoughts on models

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

Planning as drowning

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

Leadership as holding uncertainty

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

Concreting Complexity

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

The absurd

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

Rewriting history…

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

Who says fun is dangerous?

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

And I thought there was only one

Suddenly there’s another John Moore marketing blog. I realise I’m a bit of an addict for this, but this latest is not mine. It’s produced

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Emotional debt

Releasing the hidden costs of pent up frustrations

Aliveness

Finding the aliveness below the surface of stuck

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Bits of wisdom

Thanks to Andrew for sharing these little bits of inspiration from his recent trip to see the kiwis. “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity” Drive to the conditions –

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Measurement

Nice provocative thought from Earl Mardle: “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it” Corollary, you end up with a business that only produces measurements. There’s no point being

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The Gutenberg Parenthesis

Jeff Jarvis talks about the Gutenberg Parenthesis. Those who bemoan the supposed short attention spans of the networked generation typically measure this by the capacity or willingness to read a

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Evaluation vs creativity

Peter Gray highlights the downsides of evaluation for creativity In experiment after experiment the participants who made the most creative products were those who did not know that their products