I had an exciting conversation yesterday with Claire Burge, someone with whom hopefully I might get the opportunity to work in the near future. At the core of her business thinking is the concept of No Email. It's a wonderfully simple encapsulation of a whole stack of thoughts that she has (many of which I share) … Continue reading A bunch of cargo cults
Yesterday I had something of a minor argument with a colleague. It went a little like this: Them: "Google Slides isn't as good at Powerpoint." Me: "Yes it is." Them: "Well, I suppose it's OK if you're using it to do presentations." At which point I bit my lip. It was a fair, if infuriating, … Continue reading On screen
It appears that many membership organisations are facing an existential crisis. In the past two decades the means by which we can establish and sustain networks has changed dramatically, first through tool like email and latterly through the emergence of social networks. In an era when the cost to communicate with a group of people … Continue reading Membership
On Friday morning the little experiment in co-coaching (for want of a better term) took place at a venue in London. The Chief Executive of a professional institution, the Technology Director of a major sporting association and I met up for a couple of hours of conversation and ideas. I'm going to split my reflections … Continue reading Co-coaching – first reflections
Things I have learned this week: - I love it when a plan comes together - the art of business plans is the application of robust logic to a complete fiction - an empty stadium is a remarkably emotive place Next week: prospecting
This week Microsoft released another one of its periodic glimpses of an imagined future in video format. I actually struggle to see much difference between this year's one and the last biggie, which is now six years old, which in itself is an interesting reflection on how we seemed to have entered a world of … Continue reading Envisioning the future
Tomorrow marks a minor experiment. There are two organisations with whom I've had conversations in the past few months. Both are membership organisations - one a professional association, the other a sporting body. Both operate at an international level. Both have a number of challenges facing them, both strategically and operationally. Both, it appears on … Continue reading Co-coaching
Ask people if they want something new, something different, something better, and they'll probably say "yes". Get people to change their behaviours to use the new, different, better thing you've just built for them and it's a different story. It's hard. They don't change. At a basic economic level I guess you can explain this … Continue reading The change paradox
Things I have learned this week: - when push comes to shove, finance people simply cannot get agile approaches. They'd prefer to inhabit a land of fiction. - only 3 of the 11 members of the House of Lords Select Committee on Digital Literacy have a Twitter account... - ... but two of those three … Continue reading Weeknote 232: Pleasing Palindromic Perfection
I've seen quite extensive coverage this week of the topic of Digital Literacy in the education system in the UK over the past few days. It stems from the publication of a report by the House of Lords Committee on Digital Literacy, and most has been framed in a simple way: should digital literacy be … Continue reading Should digital literacy begin with phone numbers?
