Month: June 2014
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Agile Strategy
In The End of Competitive Advantage Rita Gunther McGrath says that strategy is stuck. I confess to not having read the book yet (which I will put right), but I did see a talk recently by Grahame Broadbelt which helpfully summarised some key […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
This week I spoke at Econsultancy's Future of Digital Marketing conference about Fraggl – you can see the slides here. And here are my favourite Fraggl links from this week: Another good set of slides from John Willshire on his theme of Making […]
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Making Stuff Happen
"An unshared, negative reality is delusional. A shared, negative reality is disastrous. An unshared, positive reality is short-lived. A shared, positive reality is genius." Shawn Anchor, 'Before Happiness'. HT
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Complexity and Simplicity
Taken from the most excellent Possible Health culture code (HT @Undercurrent)
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Foolish, Famous or Frozen
I often think that the balance between thinking and doing is so critical and yet is one we often get wrong. Too much of a focus on doing and we don't leave enough time for reflection, learning and application (like the reflection […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here's my favourites from this week, curated by Fraggl: Google's World Cup microsite showing how countries are feeling about their upcoming fixtures based on search terms. And here's Streetview imagery inside all 12 stadiums in Brazil. And here's the 12 best 2014 World Cup ads This Felix Salmon interview with Buzzfeed's Jonah Peretti is worth the time […]
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Agile Culture at Pinterest
So Learnfest, which I spoke at on Wednesday, has been quite an experience. A very difference conference with a very positive vibe run by enlightened people. The theme was Agility, under the banner of the ‘Brave New Workplace’, and one of the […]
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Spotify Engineering Culture
Spotify Engineering Culture – part 1 from Spotify Training & Development on Vimeo. I'm giving a talk at Learnfest today which has already proved to be a refreshingly different and fascinating conference (more on that later). Tamas Mihalovits, the Global Training Manager […]
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Itch, Pitch or Ditch
I do a fair amount of client workshops and one of the things which I always think is critical in extending out the value of a team spending time together thinking about what they do, how they could do stuff better and […]
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Here are my favourite links from this week, curated by Fraggl: "Each year, Mary Meeker unveils her fascinating Internet Trends presentation. And each year, her insights are inestimable and eagerly awaited. But each year, I have a problem with her slides. As a presentation designer, […]