Leg ups
It’s easy to recruit people or find partners if you lower your standards, but you almost certainly shouldn’t – apart from anything else, when will… Read More »Leg ups
June 2019
Starting line
Where’s the starting line for your project? How good does someone need to be to… Work for you? Work with you? For you to work… Read More »Starting line
Five Questions: Krissie Ducker
1) Introduce yourself: who are you, what do you do, and why is it important? I’m Krissie Ducker. I am a screenwriter for TV, and… Read More »Five Questions: Krissie Ducker
Values and vision: the acid test
Peter Drucker and Stephen Covey ask the same simple question to get at the heart of these: “What do you want to be remembered for?”… Read More »Values and vision: the acid test
Sketchpad studio springboard
Fit for Purpose or Good Enough mean different things depending on what we’re talking about, who it’s for and where and how it’s going to… Read More »Sketchpad studio springboard
Prominence
Making prominence your aim is like building a skyscraper without laying foundations: you might make something tall, but it’s unlikely to last and it will… Read More »Prominence
Velcro, geckos, and making friends
Some ideas for strengthening your connections within a group of people or scene: Have good, generous intentions. Show up to serve or share where it’s… Read More »Velcro, geckos, and making friends
The Onion (3): exemplar interesting problem – learning to read
Problems gain (or lose) interestingness as their context and scale changes. Take teaching a kids to read as an example. It’s almost inevitable that a… Read More »The Onion (3): exemplar interesting problem – learning to read
Seth Godin on leadership, responsibility, authority
Leadership isn’t something that people hand to you. You don’t do followership for years and then someone anoints you and says, “here.” In fact, it’s… Read More »Seth Godin on leadership, responsibility, authority
The hard thing about soft skills
The hard thing about the ‘soft’ skills of courtesy and consideration is that they’re only partly skills. They’re far more about our attitude: how much… Read More »The hard thing about soft skills
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