Month: December 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.” I liked this thought about afterlife, described by Austin Kleon and taken from…
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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 patterns of what's been going on, an opportunity to look at the bigger…
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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 play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.' Keith describes how improvisation means…
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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 does this all in under 20 minutes. In the first episode he interviews…
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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 part in the vote.
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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 Matt Locke Strategy: How to Develop, Structure and Shape a Winning System 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 via the comments below or direct. As soon as I have a good…
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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 change and the difference between the idea of a 'burning-platform', and fear-driven change…