Manege comes from the Italian Maneggiare meaning to handle and train horses and it’s one of the origins of the word manage in English. I was reminded of its significance when I found a blog entry from Robert Paterson that reflects many of my own concerns on Presence by Senge et all. I came to […]
The Nobel Peace Prize has a mixed history, but today they got it right when they awarded it to the Grameen Bank, created by Muhammad Yunus. The bank represents one of the most effective approaches to dealing with world poverty that I know. I often cite it as one of the best examples I know […]
Hemingway once said There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Since I started blogging I have come to realise (and I hate to admit this) that Euan was right. Intimacy and trust can be as powerful if they emerge through the broadcast-network model that is the […]
My thanks to Paolina via the ACT KM Forum for bringing my attention to this article. Apparently the IQ loss arising from addiction to email and text messaging is over double that arising from using cannabis. It inspired me to come up with a list of reasons for managers to restrict email use: You will […]
The latest from Gaping Void brought back some harsh memories from my youth. Although we lived in North Wales when I was young, we still regarded Cardiff in the south as our home. Every holiday we went back there to sleep on floors with cousins and perform honour visits to aunts. We spent days in […]
Around this time five years ago I had just landed at Heathrow on a flight from Washington DC via Chicago. I had spent the previous few days at an office in Arlington VA working on a method to create situational archetypes. It was an experiment in sense-making during the early days of my DARPA work, […]
One of the most thoughtful guys I know in the Blogosphere is Patrick Lambe. Always interesting with a gleeful and intelligent sense of humour. He has just posted on Invisible Influence. The posting will ruffle a few feathers with some gentle but deserved criticism but over all it is a reflection on the questions of […]
The first time I used the word Cynefin in print was in 2000 when I referenced one of the greatest artists of the modern period, Kyffin Williams. The article states: Cynefin (pronounced cun-ev-in) is a Welsh word with no direct equivalent in English. As a noun it is translated as habitat, as an adjective acquainted […]
One of the consequences of an over focus on process, be it BPR (Business Process re-engineering) or the more recent manifestation in Six-Sigma (which I sometimes refer to as Six-Stigma for reasons that I will expand on at some stage in the future) is an emphasis on Fail-safe, or getting it right. Now in a […]
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