Wrapping up the Gathering ’11 Podcast
This post brings the Gathering ’11 Podcast project to an end. Initially, I had planned a series of 10-12 episodes. For various reasons, I didn’t quite reach that goal, and ended up with 9 episodes....
View ArticleBeing an outsider
I just watched this inspiring talk by Tan Le. Like Tan, I’m also a immigrant to Australia, and her story — although vastly different from my own — resonates strongly. But this is not just an amazing...
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Group Pattern Language
I was exctited to receive my Group Works deck in the post today. The deck is a pattern language for bringing life to meetings and other gatherings. It includes 91 full-colour cards, along with a...
View ArticleGet the hell out of the way
Merlin Mann rapping on culture in companies: Instead of worrying about your own emotional attachment to the past, ask how can you get out of the way, or be supportive in the right places to help it...
View ArticleShe beats again
Spent the long weekend putting the rebuilt motor back into the hot rod. Here’s a quick clip of the engine running after the first fire. Extractors look kind of hot! 350 Chev in FJ Holden from Daryl...
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How a bicycle is made
From British Council film, a short film from 1945 that shows how a bicycle is designed and manufactured (probably in my home town of Coventry). via Kottke
View ArticleA lecture on creativity
John Cleese – a lecture on Creativity from janalleman on Vimeo.
View ArticleA Fool Proof Way to Make Change
Kevin Bishop: How simple can life be? Want to give up smoking – just stop it. Want to reduce your weight – just stop eating. Want to change (enter behaviour of your choice) – just do it. If ONLY change...
View ArticleNoam Chomsky on Being Truly Educated
Noam Chomsky on being truly educated: Via Open Culture.
View ArticleHolding Space for Change at Work
Michele Martin: So we approach professional transitions from a place of wanting to know what we should DO and tend to constantly search for the RIGHT ACTION to take us toward our goals. We may pay some...
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How Humility Drives Learning
… a good way to keep feeling young is to keep feeling humble, to keep learning. The people who think they know everything get old before their time. As he so often does, Hugh nails it with this cartoon.
View ArticlePatterns of Stories of Organisational Change
Bruce Boyes, writing for RealKM: Increasingly, the stories of people in organisations that have undergone change are being studied to help understand how change management can be done better....
View ArticleWhy Change Programs Fail in Their Tracks
Blaire Palmer, writing for HRZone: Yes, change is a constant. But you don’t need a change programme to bring about change… This struck a chord with me. It’s one of the most coherent arguments I’ve read...
View ArticleEmpathy Training in Schools
Jessica Alexander, writing for The Atlantic: But in Denmark, a nation that has consistently been voted the happiest place in the world since Richard Nixon was president, children are taught about...
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How to Be Perfectly Unhappy
The Oatmeal: Amen. This comic was based on this essay from Augusten Burroughs: How to live unhappily ever after, which is also a great read.
View ArticleI’ll Let You in on a Secret ...
Mary Alice Arthur: It is a powerful experience to engage in someone’s story. Actually it happens naturally. When we get “hooked” into someone’s story, the brain of the storyteller and of the audience...
View ArticleCreativity as Rehearsal
I’ll circle back to this and write a longer piece about my own, recent experiences learning improv and playback theatre. In the meantime, here’s a great video showing how we can use the ideas of...
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