Tag Archives: organisational life

The consolations of manual work

Posted on 1 November 2010 by

Book review: The Case for Working with Your Hands, by Matthew Crawford There’s an old joke about a banker whose plumber charged him £250 for a two-minute job to fix a leaking tap.  “I don’t earn that kind of money … Continue reading →

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Mind the gap: how to focus on your purpose in the arts

Posted on 18 June 2010 by

I’m writing a series of pieces for ArtsProfessional on how arts organisations can focus on delivering their mission. Part 1, on the gap between the organisation’s purpose and its actions, appears today and is reproduced below. *** A theatre won … Continue reading →

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The science of valuing chaos in organisations

Posted on 20 July 2009 by

Book review: Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley Between the mysterious, almost inconceivable science of quantum physics and the mundane experience of working in a large organisation it would be hard to think of realms that are further … Continue reading →

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Meeting behaviour in a recession

Posted on 14 February 2009 by

As a practitioner in medialand, I learned the value of creative behaviours – ways to open up thinking and new ideas in order to develop better products.  I particularly admired a book called Sticky Wisdom by ?What If!, a group of … Continue reading →

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The meaning of cycle rage

Posted on 10 September 2008 by

My trusted advisor tells me my blog posts are “very eclectic”.  I don’t thinks she intends this as positive feedback.  She’ll be unimpressed, then, by this tangent into the world of cycling.  Bear with me.  It’s a tale of incivility, … Continue reading →

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