Raising the tone
Lowering the tone is easy, often funny, and sometimes desirable: lofty conversations gain traction (or evaporate) when touched to earth. Laughter liberates. It’s much harder… Read More »Raising the tone
Bits for atoms
We’re repainting our house – this is one of the colours about to be mixed at our local hardware shop. A small snippet of the… Read More »Bits for atoms
Conflicting values
If you keep butting up against the same problem with a colleague – a problem you think you’ve fixed, but that comes up repeatedly in… Read More »Conflicting values
Matt Mullenweg on distributed work
Here’s a short video with Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic*. He talks a bit about lessons he’s learned in running a distributed company,… Read More »Matt Mullenweg on distributed work
Invisible compromises
Why are our compromises so often invisible to others? We take a deep breath, struggle to assume the best, let go of a few things… Read More »Invisible compromises
Toolkit (v0.1)
My last post got me thinking again about the toolkit for making change and building a good future. What follows started out as the tail… Read More »Toolkit (v0.1)
Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
If you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really hasn’t been invented; it’s only been done. When I published The Practice of Management fifty… Read More »Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
Struggle
Honest love is born from the struggle / it’s lived in the valley as much as the hill Mark Stone I saw a young man… Read More »Struggle
Good starts
We think we see good starts all the time, but most of the time we see wrong. Most of the time what looks like a… Read More »Good starts
Move it on
We eat elephants of different shapes and sizes. But most of the time, doing most of the things that matter, we’re eating elephants: learning a… Read More »Move it on