The Delusion of Learning from Experience The most powerful learning comes from direct experience. Indeed, we learn eating, crawling, walking, and communicating through direct trial… Read More »Peter Senge on complexity and the difficulty of organisational learning
George Leonard reminds us that the majority of the time we spend doing anything will be spent on the plateau rather than on the peaks… Read More »Loving the plateau (2)
The five– make that the twelve things you need to build an effective organisation for change:
I’ll share five first principles of intelligent, improvement-oriented swimming. First, is to recognize that, as a human swimmer, you are an energy-wasting machine. DARPA, the… Read More »Terry Laughlin: five principles of intelligent swimming (Total Immersion Swimming)
We were working for a well-known software consultancy at a Big Bank that decided to introduce individual performance metrics, “for appraisal and personal development purposes”…… Read More »Dan North on deep productivity: Delivering the team
I have always thought that he [Wells] reacted too swiftly to everything; possibly as a part of the swiftness of his natural genius. I have… Read More »GK Chesterton on HG Wells and the function of an open mind
If you do something for an hour or two once a week – go for a run, play a sport or an instrument, make some… Read More »Three Times a Week
David Pinsof (psychologist and one of the designers of Cards Against Humanity [Amazon UK]) has just popped into my list of People to Listen to… Read More »David Pinsof on Social Paradoxes
There is a world of difference between doing something for the first time, doing it a second time, doing it regularly, and doing it as… Read More »The first time takes twice as long