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Can Malcolm Gladwell help our Movement?
Last week was about the difficulties of creating a movement, the mission impossible community of practice. Here is some hope in the form of Malcolm Gadwell’s book The Tipping Point. This has lots of...
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Bikeshedding – prospering in your committees! Parkinson’s Law of Triviality.
This is a fantastic find. Thanks to my father in law, who always manages to top trump my blog topics (in a nice way), proving two things: There is not much new that’s really new in the world; and Age...
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The staff don’t understand, quick draw them a picture or something……..
Suspend reality and imagine this strange situation……. Boss: “The staff here are a huge problem. They just don’t get my latest initiative, what’s wrong with them?” Smithers: “Ah yes Sir. The words in...
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Will descending from Welsh Sheep Farmers prevent you collaborating?
Back in the mid 1800’s a group of Welsh emigrants were being rescued from an island where they been shipwrecked. Before they left, they modestly showed their rescuers what they had achieved during...
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Negative Capability, John Keats and Half Man Half Biscuit.
Everybody sing along……. There is nothing better in life, Than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro. There is nothing better in life, Than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro....
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Is Best Practice the Enemy of Innovation?
Here’s a confession. Before I go to bed I like to watch an episode of How It’s Made. There is something very soothing about manufacturing processes. The logical sequence, efficient systems, robotic...
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Agile Project Management and a Naval Bombardment in Newport, South Wales
This is actually about the game Battleships and not some sinister plot (probably by Cardiffians) to obliterate Newport in a naval bombardment. Last week I went to Newport to learn about agile project...
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Florence Nightingale; the mother of Infographics? (btw she was also a nurse……)
This week I’ve had a few interesting conversations following this exchange: Question, “What did Florence Nightingale do? ” Typical response, “She was a Nurse……(of course!)“. But….. “did you know she...
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Quiet calm consideration will untangle every knot (not carnage)
At the end of this post I’m hoping that I will have convinced you to view a video of a song from the Gilbert and Sullivan, Comic Opera, ‘The Gondoliers’. Not generally my everyday listening, but please...
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Corporate Reporting. Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle Without the Box Lid?
This week I’ve been reminiscing about my time spent as a Corporate Planning and Performance Reporting Minion. They were happy days (I think?). Thankfully I’ve been ‘clean’ for 10 years, 5 months and...
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