I can’t remember the exact context but in a recent online session, I ended up in a brief discussion with someone on the nature of improvisation. My interlocutor made the point that improvisation doesn’t just happen, it requires a lot of preparation, practice and perseverance to get to the point where something can appear to […]
My old headmaster, of fond memory, was too find of appealing for harmony at school assemblies. I think he wanted everything to be like the choir in the banner picture. The last of a generation who lived uncomfortably through the transition of a Grammar School to a Comprehensive, he maintained a teaching schedule and could […]
One of the most painful ever scenes for anyone of a progressive mindset is the People’s front of Judea from Monty Pythons Life of Brian which came out in 1979. I think it is my favorite of the Monty Python films. Aside from the People’s Front, I love the final scene Always Look on the […]
In the first of these articles, I looked at Borton’s W³ question from the 1970s and more recent adaptations (with varying degrees of acknowledgment of their source) by Driscoll, Eoyang and Liberating Structures. I’ve found all useful in various ways but I have concerns based on their heavy reliance of workshops (a general concern by […]
I’m picking up on my earlier posts on experts and professionalism by addressing the more controversial issue of workshops in modern practice. Now before anyone gets paranoid or over reacts I’m not arguing against workshops per se. after all I use them and have developed a range of methods that depend on workshop type interaction. […]
Just over a week ago I posted at the end of day one of the Helsinki think tank on Leadership. I planned to post the next day on one of the sessions I was involved in but events and travel overtook me. The email backlog is still high, the requirements of setting up the new […]
In the course of writing my Christmas series I came up with a throw away comment about the 3Cs of research. I made that comment in the context of the way in which so called research is used to support stories people want to believe and yes, I was being negative. It got retweeted a […]
My annual trip to Nice to teach the Masters programme in Entrepreneurship. It’s a regular routine by now, land at Nice and walk through the IBIS for a meal and bed followed by a full days teaching and a beer with Charles before flying back to London. Now I teach on a fair number […]
5: Taking something of value, but then seeking to industrialise it While I detest cults I have more sympathy for my fifth target in this series. There are a lot of things that start off well, but then shift from the capability of an artisan to a fully industrial model in an attempt to scale […]
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