Easy for you
I love obstacle courses. A lifetime ago I was very-part-time in the army, and I remember a morning on an obstacle course early on in… Read More »Easy for you
Vision
The soft option
Your desire to be generous to others is a great motivator to excellence: if you’re serious about ensuring that the externalities of your project are… Read More »The soft option
What’s it worth? (2)
The way of thinking I described yesterday also applies to buying equipment, services and training in an organisation. The question isn’t simply “How much does… Read More »What’s it worth? (2)
What’s it worth? (1)
$50 for a pair of jeans.£100 for a pair of shoes.£250 for a smartphone – if you’re thrifty. The prices of these and many other… Read More »What’s it worth? (1)
Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
Planning is essential in education, but it’s easy to fall into the habit of treating your session plan or presentation as a set of inputs… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (8) – classrooms as complex adaptive systems
Machine. Ecosystem. (5) – Duncan Green on systems thinking and development
A ‘system’ is an interconnected set of elements coherently organized in a way that achieves something. It is more than the sum of its parts:… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (5) – Duncan Green on systems thinking and development
Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
Yesterday’s post laid out several reasons benefits of understanding your organisation as a machine.* But many of the important parts of your organisation don’t behave… Read More »Machine. Ecosystem. (2)
Vision. Positioning. Execution. (3)
Positioning Being ready in the right place at the right time makes everything easier. Sometimes you need to position yourself for a better view –… Read More »Vision. Positioning. Execution. (3)
Dreaming by day: Kevin Kelly on realists and fantasists
I one-hundred-percent agree with the idea that to be human is to be ‘tensioned’, to be in conflict in some ways between two conflicting ideas… Read More »Dreaming by day: Kevin Kelly on realists and fantasists
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)