Kicking cans: job descriptions versus culture
A few days ago I watched a schoolboy kicking a can down the road. He kicked it a couple of times and then miskicked, sending… Read More »Kicking cans: job descriptions versus culture
Learning and Education
W. Brian Arthur on combinatorial innovation
The idea … that we have is that there’s some genius in an attic… cooking up technology and coming up with inventions. But it started… Read More »W. Brian Arthur on combinatorial innovation
Podcasting Howto: workflow for recording and improving sound quality for a podcast using Audacity
This howto is entirely based on David Taylor‘s excellent Introduction to Audacity youtube lesson. With apologies for the boring soundcheck used in the examples. Preamble… Read More »Podcasting Howto: workflow for recording and improving sound quality for a podcast using Audacity
Podcast recommendation: Marc Andreesen on The Moment with Brian Koppelman
I’ve already shared an extract from this episode about systems thinking here, but the whole interview is fascinating and everyone I’ve recommended it to has… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Marc Andreesen on The Moment with Brian Koppelman
Building blocks and open source organisations
No doubt your organisation has lots of moving parts, many of which are specific to what you do. But it’s probably also made up of… Read More »Building blocks and open source organisations
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on scoring and missing
Sometimes people overlook… important statistics. My basketball hero, Wilt Chamberlain, who retired 56 years ago, still holds 72 NBA records, several of which are considered… Read More »Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on scoring and missing
Fellow travellers: Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman on mentors
Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman have had a great series of conversations on Brian’s The Moment podcast. Here’s a little something on the subject of… Read More »Fellow travellers: Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman on mentors
Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
Four types of vision: Vision of what is: the good, the bad… and the missing. Vision of possibilities: seeing what could be, or what could… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (2)
John Gardner on regeneration
Values always decay over time. Societies that keep their values alive do not do so not by escaping the process of decay but by powerful… Read More »John Gardner on regeneration
Ordinary people. Good work.
Good to Great is all well and good, but what about Pretty Good to Very Good? I’ve been mulling over the DC podcast and this… Read More »Ordinary people. Good work.