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 consultants who – while challenged with punctuation – cut through the fog regarding innovation. Sticky [...]
Meeting behaviour in a recession
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Leadership
Tags: books·meetings·organisational life·recession
Libraries are needed now more than ever
October 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Zeitgeist
Camden Council in north London, where I live, is considering changing the ethos of its libraries – to allow people to bring in food and drink and use their mobile phones. The intention is to make libraries more appealing to young people. As both a library user and the parent of a young person, this [...]
Tags: credit crunch·knowledge·learning·libraries·local government·public policy·public value·recession
Thoughts on getting through turbulent times
October 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment · Managing oneself
When I talk to people in the financial sector, I understand the meaning of the current turmoil being a crisis unprecedented in our lifetimes. The experience of redundancy is unlike that any of us are likely to have come across before. With banking institutions disappearing at a rate of knots, others laying off staff in [...]
Tags: banking·career change·credit crunch·recession·redundancy·transition