Year: 2017
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Three Deaths, and the Afterlife
“There are three deaths: the first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.” […]
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Shipped in 2017
Every year around now I write up a kind of end of year review of what I've been up to professionally over the last 12 months. I do it simply as a way of taking a step back and looking at the […]
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Learning from Improv
I love this quote from Miles Davies talking about jazz improvisation that Keith Sawyer uses in his post about how creativity is all about what you do afterwards: 'It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you […]
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Perspective and Bias
Dan Pink has a new thing called the 1-3-20 podcast. The idea is that each week he selects one important non-fiction book, asks its author three key questions about it (What’s the big idea? Why should I care? What should I do?), and […]
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – The Winner
A close vote this month but it was Thas Naseemuddeen's thoughtful post on Two years of being a chief of a thing that won through in the end so well done to Thas. She joins the hall of fame. My thanks to everyone that took […]
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between: Two years of being a chief of a thing by Thas Naseemuddeen The ins and outs of work by Matthew Knight How to Measure Ghosts: Arthur C. Nielsen and the Invention of Big Data by […]
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Post of the Month – November 2017 – Nominations
It's time to open up nominations for Post of the Month for November – so if there are pieces that you've read over the past month that you thought were particularly good you can nominate them to be included in the vote […]
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Personalising Purpose
We hear so much about brand and organisational purpose but I think that the nuances of how we bring this to life are often lost. In Accelerate, John Kotter (who also wrote Leading Change of-course) talks about purpose in the context of […]
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Google Firestarters – Change and Complexity – The Event
For our recent Google Firestarters (our 26th!), we revisited a successful format that we first did two years ago. In 2015, in one of our most successful Firestarters ever, seven of the best minds in the industry gave a ten minute perspective in […]
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The Unit of Delivery
There’s a great interview with Tom Loosemore (Group Director of Digital Services at the Co-Op and ex-Govt Digital Service) talking about the digital transformation of public services in the latest issue of Offscreen magazine. One of my favourite quotes from it is […]