Category: Projects

So alongside the great dread of failure or being found out there is another worry that I have from the work that I have done so far. There are a number of people who currently operate in the world of play (with adults in workplace environments) and who, from my vantage point here, take quite a … Continue reading 11. Book Reset: Childlike

Being judged. That's something that's holding me back in this project. What if I were to do all the work, put my heart and soul into it, get something out there (and something far more fixed and permanent than my usual ephemeral ramblings) and then people didn't like it? Even worse, what if it just … Continue reading 10. Book Reset: the fear

It's all well and good talking about this stuff, exploring what other people are doing, and reporting on it. But how am I actually walking the walk? I'm just at the beginning of a new project looking at how an organisation can rethink the way in which it operates. This is not specifically about technology, … Continue reading 9. Book Reset: What does tinkering look like?

So how far, exactly, can I stretch an analogy? To date, my work around the book has been inspired by a simple tale that has come about from the observation of my kids playing Lego. Here's original article. It has evolved somewhat over the last 10 months ("free play" has become "tinkering"), and I've spoken to … Continue reading 8. Book Reset: the thesis

Right at the beginning of this journey (in the X Factor sense of the term) I was confronted with an apparent contradiction: if I knew from the outset what the book was going to look like then it would be being written in a way that was directly contradictory to the message of the book. … Continue reading 7. Book Reset: structure

Last week Chris King got in touch to say that, as someone who wasn't really a completer finisher he didn't think he could ever get to write a book. As someone who biases towards starting myself, I know where he comes from. Since starting the book project I have also established a number of new clients, … Continue reading 6. Book Reset: Finding the motivation

One of the few things I've been clear about throughout this work so far is the desire to be published through a traditional publisher. There are a few reasons for that: the sense of it still being "proper" publishing; the feeling of someone else validating my ideas; that we seem to be in a period … Continue reading 5. Book Reset: route to the bookshop

I get a bit frustrated with most "business" books. They have a tendency to give about 12 chapters coverage to an idea that could be expressed in one. I have many on my bookshelves that I've given up on after about a quarter, not convinced that the rest will add much more to what I … Continue reading 4. Book reset: format choices

If you thought that this series of posts was pretentious so far, I'd turn away now if I were you... From the conversations I've had so far with publishers and agent, it appears that if you want someone to publish your book, you better have a pretty clear idea about your audience. Who is the … Continue reading 3. Book Reset: the reader