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If a victory is told in detail one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat. – Sartre

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It’s all connected

Tim Kastelle passes on this rather nice Diderot quote from the new book Superconnect: Everything is linked together… beings are connected with each other by

Agile Procurement

Dominic Campbell’s challenge to clumsy government procurement has the best title of the year – It’s Time People Got Fired for Hiring IBM. The rest

Kindergarten kids beat MBAs

Tom Wujek’s TED talk explores how business training limits creative thinking. (Click here if embedded video isn’t showing.) Hat tips: Rob Paterson and Screw Work

Re-examining the familiar

I reread something I wrote back in 2006 about Ellen Langer’s work on mindful learning. She makes this point:When people overlearn a task so that

Empathy and innovation

Tim Kastelle has a good post about Empathy and Innovation. I’m fond of talking about “relationships before ideas” and Tim seems to be in similar

The power of touch

I’ve long thought that a clipboard was a powerful prop. I only have to hold one and I start to feel more officious. So it’s

Willpower and its limits

Nice report on research from Scientific American: Setting your mind on a goal may be counterproductive. Instead think of the future as an open question.

Not trying too hard

Jocelyn Glei writes about What we can learn from babies. She talks about the kind of meditative state in which a particular kind of creative

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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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Authenticity Works

Authenticity Works is the name I’ve given to an informal group that’s now met a couple of times. Both have been really satisfying meetings of people who are interested in

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Today’s Gonzo quote

Today’s snippet of Chris Locke’s Gonzo serialisation is his quoting of David Weinberger (from here) The belief in centralized management isn’t just a business decision. It’s part of a larger,

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Monetising relationships…

I’m loving David Weinberger’s witty take on various schemes for making money out of social media etc. Now the panel of experts gets up. Unfortunately the first one says “Advertising

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The Tyranny of the Explicit, revisited

I recently revisited a podcast I recorded with Viv McWaters and Roland Harwood about The Tyranny of the Explicit. It dates from 2010 and I’m reuploading it here. I think