The team had some bad news yesterday. We weren’t successful bidding competitively for a piece of work which we have been developing for three years. When I was told the news I went through the whole Kubler-Ross cycle in a matter of minutes: denial; anger; bargaining; depression and then grudging acceptance. It was the second … Read more
That moment when we realise something is not as it seemed for every living second of our lives before then. And in that shift comes a completely different way to view reality. Up to that moment, everything made sense because of this founding principle by which we lived. Then, when the light shines through, we … Read more
A Manifesto for Connectedness. We have in some ways moved vast distances since the early work on scientific management of FW Taylor at the beginning of the 20th Century, and yet in so many ways the workplace is still obsessed with scientific artifice, something that has been nurtured by the information revolution. In Taylor’s day … Read more
We are all living libraries. We carry within us memories, ideas, beliefs and stories. Imagine a world beyond the bookshelves where we function like tribes and tribal leaders – carrying the traditions and ideas of the human race in our conversations and interactions. And stories are built upon and curated by each of us, adding … Read more
Earlier today, I gave a talk at the annual conference which my team holds each September. It’s a two-day conference called “Let’s Talk Research“, and this year the theme was “Edge Walking”. This talk is my contribution to the conference: In the film, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” from 1962 based on a … Read more
#WorkingOutLoud … a note taken from Evernote, which I produced recently. This is one of a series of ideas for developing new material over a 30 day period. This is the note without edit: Take 15 minutes each day, make it a repeating task in Remember the Milk for those 30 days (weekdays only? so … Read more
“Can’t help pinching myself and wondering how I got so lucky to be here edge walking at the #socialagesafari” That was one of the tweets I posted last night during the opening of the Social Age Safari. Yesterday’s train journey to the Social Age Safari event here in Bristol was an extended time on the … Read more
Tomorrow I am going to the Paintworks in Bristol for the Social Age Safari which is being run by Sea Salt Learning. It’s a 3 day event with people coming from around the globe. There will be loads of opportunities to build networks and to learn more about learning in the social age. Julian Stodd … Read more
I wake up and I look at my iPad. Drifting from Facebook to email, looking at the daily newspaper, Twitter and LinkedIn. It’s as though everyone wants a piece of me. Except they don’t: no-one is waiting for me to give them this attention, and when I have looked and replied to something there is … Read more
