I’m enjoying another great book about organisational leadership – Turn the Ship Around. Increasingly, I’m conscious that reading alone takes you only so far. You have to act on what you learn, to spend time with the lessons and thinking how you want to apply them to situation you want to influence. Reading and absorbing is a help, to really extract value you have to … Continue reading Exploring or mining
I’m looking at running a Dungeons and Dragons game online, which means co-ordinating a few things to create a good remote experience. There are a few options for doing real-time chat and preferences are coming up in the group – so far, the preference is for what’s familiar. In choosing how to do something, it’s common to fall back on tried and tested methods. It … Continue reading The familiar as a default
To search, in earnest, requires hope. Without it, you become inattentive and might very well miss the thing you’re looking for. This is true for those keys you’ve misplaced in the house, for the tragic loss of aircraft at sea, and everything in between. The scale of the search doesn’t change the need for hope – it only makes it harder to sustain. We still … Continue reading Lost and found
Sometimes You Learn 