This week I have learned: designing a workshop which was then run without me was successful, but also a strange experience of creating one's own FOMO. I really enjoy designing and running workshops. To not be present to see how it all panned out was very strange, but has taught me new levels of preparation. … Continue reading Weeknote 659: Remotely
Today's coffee companion manages collaboration products. We talked about: going above and beyond when preparing a workshop that you can't actually attend the challenges of team dynamics, personalities and linear people in wicked problem territories how wicked problems don't chunk down into problems with solutions - they're fractal and have complexity at every level into … Continue reading 132nd of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a geospatial data geek. We talked about: the challenges of "not invented here" as a barrier to collaboration and growth the importance of building things the Celtic Cross the craziness of large organisations managers taking it upon themselves to make decisions that have huge resource impact elsewhere the challenges of hybrid … Continue reading 131st of 100
This week I have learned... Keynote Karaoke was a success. I love a bit of serendipity. I caught up with Joel this morning. He mentioned whether I had come across Gabby and the Soil Tarot card deck she was building. Later this afternoon who was giving a show and tell at this month's Cardstock. Gabby, … Continue reading Weeknote 658: improvised
Every month at Equal Experts in London we host a "Network Thursday" event in our offices for staff and associates. There is pizza. There are beverages. And we usually have someone giving a talk about something of interest to the group. Last night, because it was the last Network Thursday before Christmas (yes, we've reached … Continue reading Field notes: Keynote Karaoke
This week I have learned: planning a big event which I won't actually be attending has been an interesting experience. It's forced me to become much more explicit about ideas on how the day will work and how interactions might happen in the room. I'm obviously getting concerned about the way that technology might be … Continue reading Weeknote 657: planning to delegate
Yesterday's coffee companion helps startups. We talked about... the origins of the 100 Coffees project the differences between US and UK work culture how the UK is more Christian yet less religious than the US my bug bear of "compensation" being used to describe pay and benefits the freedom to work where the work needs … Continue reading 130th of 100
About the only idea from the world of Game Theory that I know that I know is a thought experiment called The Prisoner's Dilemma. It goes something like this: You've been arrested. Your accomplice has been arrested. You are both told that if you snitch on the other you'll be let free. If you are … Continue reading The Prisoner’s D-AI-lemma
For many years I've held true to a concept that goes as follows: You can exponentially scale transactions. You can change interactions into transactions and then exponentially scale those transactions, but you lose social and cultural meaning along the way. You cannot exponentially scale interactions. They only scale in a linear fashion. My go-to metaphor … Continue reading Simulating interactions
Yesterday's coffee companion is a CIO. We talked about... starting new roles being a turnaround CIO the nonsense of the first 90/100 days and how it takes a year to work out which way is really up in an organisation the housing industry silos based on property management versus people management silos based on timeframes … Continue reading 129th of 100
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