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100 Day Sprints
One of the ideas behind sprints is to have everyone focus on a part of the build over a distinct period of time. What will you do?
Data and Animals
Having pigs, chickens, and a dog brings different responsibilities than having flowers and vegetables. So does collecting data.
A Tell
When we light fires in our wood stoves, as the flue expands there is a clicking noise. This clickinng is a type of ‘tell’.
Surfing
Part of the role of leadership is to watch organisations and industries. To ‘read’ them. When the ‘surf’ is good, leaders go surfing.
Network Effect
Telephones work because 2 are better than 1. And each new phone that gets added makes the network better. We are better because of the others.
Passporting
If one organisation shares its due diligence or capacity assessment of a partner with another organisation, it is sometimes called passporting
Good, but not Good Enough
‘You have to know how to encourage yourself how to be harshly critical and go, “That’s good, but it’s not good enough—take it out.”
‘Unproductive’ Time
How we spend our minutes can turn into habits. But perhaps we need more ‘unproductive’ time so we can create the change we seek.
Chickens & Change
We’ve added chickens to our little smallholding. It was a ‘grab the opportunity’ type of decision. Change sometimes happens like this.
Look for causes, not villians
When things go wrong, we often look for people to blame. We look for a villian, a scapegoat. Perhaps we should look for causes, not villians.
Brands Reimagined
Reimagining our current lives, organisations and societies can be hard to visualise. But this work by Thomas, who using AI, created just that.
Nervous
Most days I need to present something to a group of people online. And I am still nervous every time, wondering what’s going to happen.