Conversational leadership
David Gurteen tweeted this interesting article (pdf): Conversational Leadership: Thinking together for a change It makes a lot of sense to me pushing for a
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Scaling or evolving?
This post really interests me: Innovation for Development: Scaling Up or Evolving? As they complete some pilot experiments in development work the authors recognise that
Leadership, narcissism and what we really want
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic suggests why we end up with incompetent leaders making a point about a bias towards men in the process: In my view, the main
P2P application from a refugee camp
From the newsletter of envisional comes word of this CNET article Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank a new
Jersey
I’ve just given a presentation on Beyond Branding in Jersey. It was fun to take ideas that have been percolating for months and give them
Badgers and the joy of complexity
Great article in today’s Independent. The government decided to take action to stop the spread of TB among cattle. They found that badgers were to
More on what is marketing…
Jennifer Rice continues our rolling dialogue about what marketing’s job is. I appreciate Jen for keeping a good thoughtful exploration going. David Foster at PhotonCourier
The revolution will not be televised…
Eloquent polemic from Chris Lydon: After New Hampshire. Here’s what I’m learning: For those of us who like the sound of “Internet democracy ” who
Chautauqua
I’ll be taking part in the Chautauqua online discussion of Beyond Branding, from 15th to 29th February. Fellow authors Denzil Meyers, Chris Macrae, Julie Anixter
Microsoft’s embarassing metadata
Found via Richard Gayle is Strike that Out Sam. This is a cheeky exploitation of the fact that Microsoft Word documents retain the fingerprints of
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Action theatre, revisited
A lot of conversations about the need for action frustrate me as I’ve blogged before. So Ton’s reflections on Reboot 11 which had “action” has its theme, make a lot
23 July 2009
Starfish
I liked Hugh‘s latest cartoon accompanied by this explanation (from here) One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently
3 June 2011
Life and death
A powerful, succinct and touching post by Rob Paterson: The Right to Life. Snippet:It has been the custom of most traditional societies for individuals to take a responsibility for the
22 March 2005
One
A couple of weeks ago I met Stefan Engeseth, author of the recently published One. (There’s a free download of the first chapter there). One is Stefan’s riff on the
23 September 2006