The pilots for Children of the World have been fantastic – collecting over 7,000 stories around the world. Working on them with Cognitive Edge was fascinating, challenging and fun – the ideal project! While we gear up for the next iteration and roll-out, I’m conscious that I don’t think I Read more…
Stumbling down Whitehall this morning felt like a return to 1984/5 as students demonstrate over funding. This time it’s about tuition fees, back then it was grants, a quaint notion lost in time along with the dodo, mining and Cliff Richard looking his age. The placards were a little disappointing Read more…
One of the great podcasts from the BBC is reaching its conclusion – and it has just announced how it will finish. I love my morning drive – I usually end up listening to podcasts – it’s the University of Prius. A favourite this year has been the joint venture Read more…
Thanks to all at last night’s Medical Suppliers forum – despite the late hour and the dreary weather, they offered bright and challenging questions and sparkling conversation after I’d presented. I promised the slides: Babies, bathwater and targets – Presentation to Henley Medical Suppliers Forum, September 2010
After the recent success of the first day organised from within the Cognitive Edge European network, we’re planning the next one. It will be in Brussels (venue to be confirmed) on 15th October 2010. All Cognitive Edge network members are welcome – the emphasis is less on theory, but on Read more…
An interesting, if slightly underdone, article in today’s FT: Management – The corporate memory-makers. Some interesting points in it – the idea of using oral histories is of course a good one. (Given that I’m running another workshop on how to do them in-house on 18th February with Melcrum, I Read more…
Thanks to everyone at the Leeds Castle leadership event today – a whistle-stop challenge on communications, with an abbreviated Anecdote Circle thrown in. At the break a few of us were talking about The Future, Backwards and, naturally, I recommended Gary Klein’s Sources of Power. The slides are here: Download Read more…
A fleeting visit to Geneva yesterday – it’s always nice to arrive at the destination at 9am, in sync with everyone else’s working day, but leaving the house at 5am really doesn’t work for me, particularly when there’s a school governor’s meeting at the other end of the day. But Read more…
There's an increasing trend I've noticed recently among people looking at stories – to take a brief look at stories to find the ones that "typify" the organisation. And, because of the perception of storywork being highly resource-intensive, it's generally a very small number of stories that are used. Somewhat Read more…
From Scarlett Thomas’ The End of Mr Y: "Newtonian cause and effect suggested that someone wound the original clock and set it ticking, and that every single action in the universe could be predicted – if you had something powerful enough to do the prediction. There’s no free will in Read more…