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Leader of the pack. Can you learn Leadership?
Revisiting the thorny question today of whether ‘leadership’ is teachable. Is it something that you can learn to do, or is it something you naturally are: a leader? Sure, you can teach techniques and...
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The role of the leader. Reflecting on the life of Steve Jobs and his legacy.
It would be impossible to let today pass without paying tribute to Steve Jobs, the charismatic leader who drove Apple to it’s pinnacle of success and who, to a greater or lesser extent, changed how we...
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Cross pollination. Why generalising can be a great thing.
I’d have to throw my hands up to admit to being a generalist. I flit happily between disciplines, peeking over the edge of the abyss at the vast range of knowledge, picking out a few choice pieces,...
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Building a boat: functional and aesthetic aspects of design.
I spent time yesterday walking by the Broads, the great expanse of waterways that run through East Anglia. There are still quite a number of boatbuilders active from small yards by the side of the...
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The value of unique. Why i never met Ranulph Fiennes, but still bought his book.
A lot of things are impersonal these days. Dealing with my bank, booking a holiday online, even sitting in this coffee shop surrounded by silent strangers. Last night i was walking through Westbourne,...
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Inspiration through stories: what drives you to learn?
Stories are powerful: establishing commonality and pulling us into different emotional states with their immediacy and power. Stories are a great way of sharing ideas and vision and a great tool to use...
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Learning from others: inspiration and the power of biography
It’s great to make mistakes and learn from them, but surely better to learn from the mistakes of others. This is part of the enduring power of biographies: to understand how people have achieved things...
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Patrick Moore: a life of learning and inspiration
It was a long journey to school, by car, then train and, finally, a walk. In winter months, for added adventure and to uphold the somewhat antiquated view of building character, we still wore shorts,...
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Nine skills in a Curriculum for Social #Leadership
The ideas around Social Leadership are gaining momentum and, as i’m gathering more feedback from different organisations, I’m starting to design a curriculum around my ideas. This is a first draft of...
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To boldly go…
Just outside our Solar System, the tiny craft, Voyager, goes hurtling on: the first manmade object to leave our realm. A vessel of hope and dreams. Built with 70′s technology, pioneering in scope and...
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Finding Inspiration
Just sat here at a lose end, thinking what to write, when a conversation kicked off on Twitter from a small community that we formed in the Workshops last week. Which got me thinking: where do you find...
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Reflections from Learning Solutions Day 1: Trust and Inspiration
I flew into Florida last night, straight down from Denver, in time for dinner with friends in downtown Orlando. A great start. The thing about conferences is that they’re immersive, three days...
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Sparks
It’s everywhere. Inspiration: sparks falling in the dry leaves, flames curling and spitting, ideas burning brightly, fanned by the winds of conversation and fed by the fuel of sharing. After two days...
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The Social Age Safari – Connect the Dots
We are deep in the heart of the Social Age Safari. This is a prototype event, a live rehearsal, a chance to bring together a number of ideas to see what works. A series of three-hour hack events,...
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Fire and Fury
I have to say that when the two Falcon Heavy boosters touched down, in perfect synchrony, after shooting their record breaking payload into orbit, i felt pretty emotional. It wasn’t just the wild...
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Statues
I was talking yesterday with my friend Rhian about statues. Or, rather, she was talking and i was listening, with a group. The statue in question was the one of Edward Colston, a slave trader from...
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Fragments of Thought: Systems of Thinking
Just sharing a few fragments of thought tonight, after a long day of travel. Thinking about change in different spaces: learning as change, the evolving nature of knowledge, change as continuous, the...
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Domains of Disruption #GenerativeAI
Just sharing some fragments of thought today, with a view on five ‘Domains of Disruption’ through Generative AI. This is part of some work I am hoping to use for a symposium in due course. It’s very...
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