… 3 words to focus resilience in 2010

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This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Blog Objectives

In a post on New Years Eve I highlighted the idea of using key words to focus our attention and pull us towards our goals rather than the more traditional form of New Year’s resolutions. While I guess many people may prefer to keep their personal key words to themselves, I thought I would share [...]

… the end of the decade

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Chris Brogan’s Blog is a great source of information on social media. Recently he posted about his novel approach to setting goals and resolutions for the New Year. Instead of setting specific resolutions he sets 3 words as his guiding principles, or the keyword to focus his mind on his goals. Chris describes it this [...]

… complicated vs. complex issues

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A few days ago I followed a linked post from Trevor Levine’s Riskczar blog and discovered Rick Nason’s RDS Solutions Blog. Rick is writing some interesting stuff, challenging traditional thinking and practice around Risk Management. I commented on his earlier piece on the need for creativity, but felt that this post about the need to [...]

… resilience requires agile leadership

I came across this article amongst all the stuff in my Google Reader - Agility – The Skill You Want to Develop in 2010. I have not read a lot that caught my attention from this blog in the past. But there are a couple of things from this article I think are relevant. The Centre [...]

… that final scene with HAL and Dave

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If you recognised the reference to Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, well done. Stay with me and I will explain the relevance. I have been interested in the thoughts and writings of Nicholas Carr for some time – since reading his book Does IT Matter? and the related articles and debate that followed. I have [...]