2018-08-03 10:12
I’m developing a new workshop/retreat with my good friend Nikki Hinksman. (Viv is also helping with the design, as we’re planning to offer an Aussie version in a few months)… Read More
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2018-07-21 15:38
I hosted an unhurried conversation in London this week. We meet at the Royal Festival Hall, where we can usually find a reasonably quiet space. Only this time, most of the building had been… Read More
2018-04-20 15:57
Viv and I have been talking a lot about this book: Dietrich Dorner’s, The Logic of Failure. It’s a fascinating exploration of how easily we humans mismanage complex s… Read More
2018-04-04 07:59
Since 2014 I have run over a hundred Unhurried Conversations. These use a simple talking-piece process to allow participants to take turns to speak without being interrupted. I run them most… Read More
2018-01-26 16:08
I watched this TED Talk by Kathryn Schulz yesterday: On Being Wrong.
One thing stuck in my mind. Schulz asks a few people what it’s like to be wrong, and they reply – “d… Read More
2017-06-30 14:20
(Cross posted on Medium)
Technical debt is a term used by programmers. Referring to the ever rising cost to projects when short term fixes get applied over time to writing code. Over time, t… Read More
2017-05-05 08:39
In the last three years I’ve run over a hundred Unhurried Conversations. Most of these have been open to the public, while others have been inside organisations as part of the work I&r&hell…Read More
2017-04-02 07:05
We’ve got a few Unhurried events coming up…
Our new group in Olympia, Washington, is having its first Conversation on Friday April 17th
The next Unhurried Santa Cruz is on Sunda… Read More
2017-02-28 13:22
Three years ago I first blogged about the idea of Unhurried. It emerged from a series of conversations with my friend Antony Quinn. We share an interest in improv theatre and were reflecting… Read More
2017-02-09 22:42
Roland Harwood at 100% Open describes five vectors of our postmodern economy. We do seem to be living in confusing if interesting times, where the benefits of hyper-connectedness a… Read More
2016-12-11 11:39
I spent Friday at a meeting experimenting with holding a Dialogue, based on the ideas of David Bohm. I was invited by Peter Kajtar who has dedicated a large part of his life to exploring Boh… Read More
2016-11-28 12:56
Neil Perkin describes two contrasting talks about Fast and Slow in Marketing. Adam Morgan shares some interesting examples of businesses that thrive on speed:
a 2014 Harris Poll.. found… Read More
2016-11-03 08:30
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves — Adam Phillips
Many of us complain that work meeti… Read More
2016-10-21 14:36
Many of us dread meetings at work. Too often they’re dull: they follow predictable patterns, and people struggle to stay engaged.
After regular meetings, the gossip by the water cooler… Read More
2016-10-19 13:29
Keith Sawyer says you should avoid recruiting people who “fit your culture” if you want to support innovation.
We know from creativity research that the most innovative teams hav… Read More
2016-10-15 07:14
Charles Scalfini gives a concise explanation of a way experts often make bad teachers. As their experience in a subject grows, they are able to form more and more useful abstracti… Read More
2016-10-12 07:04
Viv spotted this New Scientist article: The paradox of fun. It’s a review of Ian Bogost’s new book, Play Anything. Its subtitle conveys something of its depth: The Pleasure of Li… Read More
2016-10-10 12:32
Shane Parrish points to a recurrent problem managers face: they rely on “maps” of their organisations that can never really capture reality.
We are so reliant on abstraction that… Read More
2016-10-05 17:34
I am wary of management formulae… seven habits, five steps, three rules. For any complex challenge, these inevitably end up simplifying what’s needed. They appear to offer… Read More
2016-09-24 16:31
Everyone is used to being sold to. And they’re also used to being facilitated. They often feel the same way about both.
I keep reminding myself of this, to inoculate myself about getti… Read More
2016-09-22 10:31
One of the joys or working with Viv is seeing how she can strip back processes to what feel like essentials. It’s not often I work with someone who can match me for wanting to simplify… Read More
2016-09-18 07:16
Chris Corrigan highlights two quotations on writing. The first is from Jeanette Winterston:
Creativity is inexhaustible. Experiment, play, throw away. Above all be confident enough abou… Read More
2016-09-15 06:24
There’s a lot of creative energy in failure, if you don’t take it too seriously. Here are some of the out-takes from our recent video shoot. In some ways it tells you more about… Read More
2016-09-12 05:50
While Viv was over last month, we had time to shoot a new video about our facilitation training and drop in some footage from our Cambridge workshop. Here’s the result: Read More
2016-09-07 06:37
Viv pointed me to this video which is a great introduction to how we can use the ideas of improv theatre to support creativity and change Read More
2016-08-23 07:46
Donald Clark has a useful post on the role of failure in learning.
He contrasts the airline industry, which scrutinises and learns from failure to create safety, with HR convention:
We wallo… Read More
2016-08-23 07:27
(cross-posted from Medium)
I’m planning a new workshop with my friend Alan Moore, inspired by his new book: Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything
We’ll be asking: could… Read More
2016-07-25 08:05
I’m running a new workshop with my friend Alan Moore. Crafting Beautiful Businesses is on 27 September in London.
The words beauty and business sound an unlikely pairing. Business is… Read More
2016-07-23 10:42
I like the idea of unhurried leadership. I’ve written about it on the Unhurried website and I thought I’d share it here too.
I have to admit to disliking simple formulae for mana… Read More
2016-07-22 07:55
Viv has been blogging up a storm this week, in anticipation of the workshop we’re running at the end of August.
Staying alive: Too much time in meetings gets spent in trances, cycling… Read More
2016-06-08 18:12
I’ve written before about the Unhurried Conversations I host here in Cambridge. They have a simple format that prevents people interrupting each other. This seems to create a dif… Read More
2016-05-31 16:19
I think one of the great arts of facilitation is to keep things simple. The pitfall for many facilitators is that they try to embed in their work all the lessons they learn as they go, so th… Read More
2016-05-31 10:22
Legendary baseball player, Yogi Berra, said, “you can’t think and hit at the same time”.
It’s an idea explored in this 2 minute video that looks at the science of hi… Read More
2016-05-24 14:37
I’ve been hosting Unhurried Conversations here in Cambridge for more than two years now. Here’s a post from a few months back describing the approach.
It continues to be a fascin… Read More
2016-05-16 07:00
I made a short film to give a flavour of the upcoming Creative Leadership Workshop. I’m running it with Viv here in Cambridge on 31 August to 2 September. All the booking details are h… Read More
2016-05-13 10:45
One of the things Viv and I will be exploring in our residential is the idea of psychological safety. Put simply, this is the quality of groups where people feel able to share views, includi… Read More
2016-05-12 06:33
When I wrote the page for our upcoming residential workshop, I included the idea of “becoming the sort of leader you’d feel like following”. It could be a glib t… Read More
2016-05-07 07:33
I listened again this morning to Viv’s and my podcast with David Robinson on the tyranny of excellence.
David’s motto, “put down your clever, pick up your ordinary” i… Read More
2016-05-07 07:23
There is a lot going on when people talk, and much of it goes unnoticed. This post – Telling is Listening – by Maria Popova highlights some of the richness that lies in any conve… Read More
2016-05-01 08:51
I’ve been rereading my posts about David Berreby’s book, Us and Them. This one explores how easily we fall into simple ways to separate people into categories, not noticing the m… Read More
2016-04-29 12:19
I’ve sometimes talked about Bruce Schneier’s idea of “security theatre”. He uses this to describe security processes at airports that (in his view) create an ill… Read More
2016-04-28 16:39
According to legend, famed cellist Pablo Casals was asked, at the age of 93, why he continued to practice. He replied, “because I think I’m noticing an improvement.”
Practi… Read More
2016-03-29 14:08
Viv has recorded a podcast with Jessica Tangelder talking about creative facilitation, including a lot about how she I work together.
Of course, I agree with just about all of it; Viv and I… Read More
2016-03-25 08:30
Viv reviews Letters Left Unsent, the reflections of a humanitarian aid worker. It sounds fascinating, peeling back our surface stereotypes to reveal the rich, messy complexity of the real wo… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Like many of my friends, I like to talk about facilitation as a practice. It isn’t a straightforward process of identifying problems and choosing the right recipe to solve them. It&rsq&hell…Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
It’s easy for meetings to lapse into Management Porn. The real life of the organisation can’t be reached if we stay there. Here are all the videos so far Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Chris Rodgers suggests that the most useful things in organisations come from people willing to operate at the margins. This where unexpected things can emerge. Unfortunately, organisations… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Incredible to think, isn’t it, that the Chinese language started off as English in England, but then one person whispered it to another person… That’s how Milton Jones kic… Read More
2014-01-23 18:01
NB: This is an excerpt from a forthcoming paper: Health Opportunity Design®: Re-Inventing the Front-End of Health Innovation
It is widely understood that stakeholders throughout the… Read More
2014-01-17 18:23
This updated ZinC Growth version of the paper is now available to download here. Comments very welcome Read More
2014-01-17 16:07
By Nicki Sutton with Chris Lawer of ZinC Growth Consultancy and ZinC Health Innovation
It's that time of year when online commentators offer their insights on what we can ex… Read More
2013-11-12 08:58
The following problems continue to plague innovators:
New product failure rates run at 75%-85%
New business start-ups are even higher at 92% failure rate
There is a high degree of itera… Read More
2012-03-11 08:49
After 10 years of using Movable Type as my blogging engine, it suddenly died on me this week. So with the help of Elmine, I've changed over to WordPress for my blogging. Something that was a… Read More
2012-02-26 15:56
I have been visiting the World Bank the past days to discuss various open data projects, e.g. in Kenya, Moldova and Tunisia.
During one of the meetings, an informal one during lunch, we disc… Read More
2012-01-10 17:19
Last year following my client-turned-friend Ernst Phaff's lead, I posted a list of things that in 2010 gave me a sense of accomplishment, the Tadaa!-list. As I wrote then "As a 'knowledge wo… Read More
2011-11-04 11:03
The Digital Agenda for Europe is going local across Europe. To translate the high level goals and actions to tangible steps and projects locally, connecting to, interacting with and getting… Read More
2011-10-24 07:31
At the Open Government Data Camp in Warsaw on 20 and 21 October I hosted a workshop on 'making open government data work for local government'.
If open government data is here to stay then… Read More
2011-09-23 08:29
In the Open Data arena people often ask if 'the people' are actually 'ready' to deal with the availability of data. Do we have the statistical skills, the coding skills, to make data useful?… Read More
2011-09-20 11:39
Last year, when I turned 40, Elmine and I organized an unconference to celebrate (of course we also had a bbq party!), and we invited people from our various circles. The topic was 'Workin… Read More
2011-09-15 14:49
I thought I would share a typology of common issues that I think plague the "opportunity discovery, selection and targeting" first phase of innovation, which I am most interested in and whic… Read More
2011-06-27 10:34
This video has been created by the Open Knowledge Foundation, based on interviews taped during the Open Government Data Camp in London, November 2010. It has been released for a while alread… Read More
2011-06-22 12:36
In the context of the collaborative production in eGovernment study (more information on www.ourservices.eu) that a consortium I am part of is carrying out for the European Commission, we h… Read More
2011-06-22 12:27
Last week I visited the Open Government Data Austria 2011 conference in Vienna. It was a great meet-up of the very active and lively Austrian open government data community. I spoke at the c… Read More
2011-05-28 06:26
Headerp solutions pvt ltd recruit both as permanent and temporary staffs based on the candidates performance and they never disappoint any of their clients or candidates. They have strong HR… Read More
2011-05-27 06:06
Headerp solutions pvt ltd is one of the best outsourcing and consulting company in Chennai and they have started this reputed organisation more than five years before and they do all kinds o… Read More
2011-05-26 05:44
Let us first proceed with their offshore software developing and with the help of remote facilities and computing facilities, they implement the client’s software assignments in a prof… Read More
2011-05-25 06:19
Headerp usually uses the internet and their websites to advertise their services and register people even if they don't have a particular opening. In this way, they try to make sure that the… Read More
2011-05-20 05:38
Headerp solutions pvt ltd advises their clients company on how to maximize and put them one step ahead of the competition. They provide their clients with necessary objectivity through their… Read More
2011-05-19 07:31
Headerp carefully studied and analyze the business problems and process and offer comprehensive reports and suggests the necessary changes that to be made. Headerp offers the best erp soluti… Read More
2011-05-18 06:58
Headerp solutions pvt ltd as per their name, they are the head in sap and erp services. Apart from these services, they also offer different services. They are one of the leading and well es… Read More
2011-05-17 06:31
Headerp solutions pvt ltd has been established five years before and they have started their business in Chennai, India with an art of developing a center here in Chennai. Headerp always e… Read More
2011-05-16 13:12
Headerp solution pvt ltd is one of the leading sap consulting companies in Chennai with good facilities and implantation of sap system. They also recruit people in Erp functions through th… Read More
2011-05-14 04:52
We master the time in such a way that our plan commence before any work. You will experience a top quality of service in headerp solutions pvt ltd. Most of the clients come back to us beca… Read More
2011-05-13 20:52
Two things in this world are tough, one is finding the right company for job and other is finding the right company for your services like outsourcing and etc. when anyone finds these two as… Read More
2011-05-10 06:01
Plan your enterprise resource with the help of erp support so that you can keep in touch with all departments of the company and can get information on most of your business transactions… Read More
2011-04-25 05:45
Are you interested in becoming a sap consultant, and then do you know what the average salary of the sap consultant is? If not, read this article. The report says that the sap consultant wit… Read More
2011-04-22 05:57
Headerp oversee the recruitment process and make sure that talented people are brought into the company without any struggle and help a whole variety of different companies that starts from… Read More
2011-04-20 07:13
Today wherever you go, you face the tough competition and especially when you are searching for your career, there is more competition. Many educational experts are saying that, don’t… Read More
2011-04-18 15:10
Last week I gave a presentation at the second international conference on digital citizenship CICD in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. During two days topics like on-line political communicati… Read More
2011-04-18 06:35
Headerp solutions pvt ltd as an outsourcing and consulting company in Chennai provide different services and acts as a best outsourcing and consulting company in Chennai. When consideri… Read More
2011-04-16 05:29
Headerp solutions pvt ltd as an outsourcing and consulting company in Chennai provide different services and acts as a best outsourcing and consulting company in Chennai. When considering th… Read More
2011-04-08 07:22
Headerp solutions pvt ltd advises their clients company on how to maximize and put them one step ahead of the competition. They provide their clients with necessary objectivity through their… Read More
2011-04-07 07:01
Finding a leading recruiting consultancy is a hard task nowadays because there are many recruitment consultancies and finding them is like finding a missing screw in a huge instrument box. S… Read More
2011-04-05 05:47
The recent trend of erp software is tremendous such that more companies have started to invest in erp, sap, oracle and more. The software companies have jumped into this market to fill their… Read More
2011-03-31 10:39
In this article, let us see about the headerp solutions pvt ltd erp services and how do they do this services in a best way. Before going brief into the topic, let us see what erp is all con… Read More
2011-03-29 07:42
Headerp solutions pvt ltd as per their name, they are the head in sap and erp services. Apart from these services, they also offer different services. They are one of the leading and we… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A few years back, when I had just moved to Cambridge, I was sitting in my new home feeling deeply depressed. The move had been extremely stressful and at that point I was regretting it. This… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
John Wenger discusses how easily we create blind spots in our self-awareness, leading us to cheerily diagnose others whilst missing our own follies. Moats and beams. He tells of a CEO who wa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Roland reminded me about this video. A guy gets a bike where the normal steering is reversed, so if you turn the handlebars left, the front wheel goes right. It’s almost impossible for… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Viv and I have recently shot a short film for our Creative Facilitation website. We wanted to convey the essence of our approach in a couple of minutes. Read More
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