If you can’t replicate something because you don’t understand it, then it really hasn’t been invented; it’s only been done. When I published The Practice of Management fifty… Read More »Peter Drucker on management as a discipline
How do tools – ideas and understandings, practices, and real physical tools – get to the people who need them? Some tools may only need… Read More »How tools spread
Stats can help a lot – the right metrics are a sixth sense, helping you see through the fog and often giving substance to what… Read More »Stats: Tail. Dog.
Here’s the draft of six questions for first interviews on the DC podcast – let me know what you think. Spec for the podcast (which… Read More »Driverless Crocodile Podcast: 6 Questions
Interface A discipline, culture or scene is a network: a mesh of people, things, ideas and ways of doing things. It might be tightly defined,… Read More »Ways in: ravelling the network
Getting a team together? Start building it before you’re even in the room. Kathy Delaney-Smith is the coach of the Harvard woman’s basketball team… A… Read More »“How do I take these thoroughbreds and turn them into a team?”
Richard Hackman‘s second lens on teams and team performance is about the team getting better at what it does over time. If you’re leading a… Read More »Team performance (2): Team Growth
This is a different type of post – more of a howto or a ‘what I tried’, in the spirit of moving fast and getting… Read More »121 minutes to your first podcast episode
This is the sixth-and-third post in a series applying Seth Godin’s rules of bootstrapping (see also here) to building a non-profit organisation. So what do finding the right size for… Read More »Bootstrapping the non-profit organisation Rule 6: Scale is not a Reward (3)
Here’s a great case study in doing it now and starting small from Fast Company founder Alan Webber. It’s about how Muhammad Yunus founded Grameen… Read More »Do it now, and start small