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Pam Slim writes a refreshing and forthright post slamming common management practice. I particularly like her take on culture: Corporate culture is a natural thing that …

Thinking over how pervasive (and problematic?) the notion of control appears to be in organisations I was inspired to write a little piece around it. Here’s …

Merlin Mann at 43 Folders points us to an interesting book called Mindfulness and makes reference to Jorge Borges’ (one of my favourite writers) famous list …

You may have heard of the Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing metaphor for team development. This metaphor provides a lens by which you can view a groups evolution through the …

Just a few weeks ago I was wondering, “What’s Duncan Watts up to these days?”  Duncan wrote a terrific book called Six Degrees and re-investigated Stanley Milgram’s famous …

I was reflecting on the last social network analysis we did and it occurred to me that the survey response  might be heavily influenced by what was happening just …

A first day at a new organisation is often daunting. Apart from just getting up to speed with what you are supposed to be doing …

Last September I reviewed James Surowiecki’s book Wisdom of Crowds. At the end of the review I said: I can understand why, as Surowiecki laments, …

Here is a set of videos of Michael Crichton (author of Jurassic Park and other techo-thrillers) presenting at The Smithsonian Associates and The Washington Center for Complexity …

This comes from yesterday’s Australian Financial Review regarding a contentious desalination plant which Sydney is planning for. The key points which the paper reported were: “Plans for …