This is not a new idea, I wrote about the value of conversations over two years ago, and The Cluetrain Manifesto is 15 years old. Sometimes we just need to be reminded of the things we already know. For me that reminder came in the form of my recent visit to Continuity Insights Management Conference in […]
… explore vs exploit – resilience as learning.
To be resilient requires that we be open to new ideas. That has been a message in a number of the posts in this series, including the previous post discussing the Hamel & Valikangas article. Here is a new idea – resilience can mean different things in the Strategic, Tactical and Operational contexts of an […]
… Transocean’s best year for safety
Last month, the Transocean company announced “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history” and paid millions of dollars in Executive bonuses. These are the folks who built and staffed the Deepwater Horizon – and lost 9 of their own people the day it exploded. This announcement came only a few weeks ahead of […]
… sad opportunities to learn
A couple of meaningful anniversaries deserve to be remembered, and learned from, this week. 19 April, 1995 – the bombing of the Oklahoma (USA) Federal Building 20 April, 2010 – the explosion and subsequent oil spill on the Deepwater Horizon I expect most of the coverage will focus on the first anniversary of the start […]
… empty raincoats
The sculpture is called Without Words, by Judith Shea. It was the inspiration for the title of Charles Handy‘s book “The Empty Raincoat”. I am a big fan of Handy’s thinking. In The Empty Raincoat he tells the story of ‘The Road to Davy’s Bar’. It is a story about an Irishman explaining the directions […]