Category: insight
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On becoming ‘the only’
Kevin Kelly has a great provocation, taken from his book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier, about not always striving to be the best but instead aiming to become ‘the only’. What he means by this is the […]
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NASA, the Space Shuttle Challenger and Decision-making
There’s a renowned fictional case study (originated by Jack Brittain and Sim Sitkin) which is used in business schools to help students understand the risks around poorly informed decision-making. The scenario that students are given is to imagine that they are John […]
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Shoshin, and the Beginner’s Mind
Falling down an internet rabbit hole I ended up on this post, part of an anthology of submissions from the University of Sydney on the topic of ‘simple pleasures’. The author uses Mozart as an exemplar of having a childlike approach to […]
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On Mastery
One of the most thought-provoking things that I read over the past week was John Durrant’s notes on the book Mastery, by George Leonard (thanks to Johnnie Moore for the link). Worth reading the whole thing of course but they were so […]
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Making decisions with imperfect information
Thanks to Antony Mayfield for sharing these book notes which Ron Kohavi made about Annie Duke’s book (and also her Maven course) ‘Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When you don’t Have All the Facts’. The notes led me down all kinds […]
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Google Firestarters: Kevin Kelly
A brand new episode of Google Firestarters is now LIVE, featuring the peerless Kevin Kelly, author and co-founder of Wired. Kevin’s insights are fantastic in this. He talks about why technology optimism is the only way to make a future that we […]
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Perception vs Perspective
What’s the difference between perception and perspective? Why does this matter? It may be a subtle distinction but understanding this difference can really help us to improve or change something. Perception is how we translate the world around us (often through sensory […]
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On writing to think
James Caig pointed to this wonderful post by Shane Parrish about how writing helps you think – a subject to which I have returned several times on this blog. Shane has a typically thoughtful take on the subject (the best I think […]
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How workshop culture supports high performing teams
I facilitate a lot of workshops as part of what I do and so I was really looking forward to speaking with facilitator extraordinaire Alison Coward who works with a wide range of teams to help them work better and achieve their […]
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Context Switching
I wrote about the downsides of constant context switching (or the tendency we have to move from one task to another unrelated one) in my last book but it’s a subject that I keep thinking about when I talk to anyone about […]