You’ve probably thought about how important a strong team culture is to your organisation’s performance – and you’ve probably also experienced how hard it can… Read More »Resource: Katzenbach and Smith on improving team culture
My off-hand reference to the Roman god Janus at the turn of the year has had me thinking about looking backwards and forwards as fundamental… Read More »Janus: of dogs, of men, of gods
I never listened to The Beatles until age thirty-five… it just seemed like, The Beatles are so popular they are the image of a popular,… Read More »Colin Marshall: Cultural Nexus / An album a week
Some things about Black History month: It is not a recent product of early-21st-Century political correctness, but has roots going back to the 1920s; It… Read More »Black History Month: the things we forget and the things we can’t see
For five-hundred years, books have mattered. Books have never reached the preponderance of people because there are just so many different titles. It’s possible for… Read More »Seth Godin on books, culture and influence
In an age of polarisation, we need nuanced understanding of people and issues more than ever. What does nuance mean to you? To me it… Read More »In search of nuance
How do we come to know better? There are a range of experiences (I hesitate to call them a hierarchy) that lead us from knowing… Read More »Knowing better (2): How we know
And I will show you a still more excellent way. Paul of Tarsus – First Letter to the Corinthians We often say (and more often… Read More »Knowing better (1)
Picking up Tuesday’s post about transactional reading and contemplation, here’s something interesting that goes a little further in thinking about how we might immerse ourselves… Read More »Extending books: Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen on Timeful Texts
One million copies is a lot of anything, but should it influence your decision to buy a book? First thought: No it shouldn’t. Judging from… Read More »One million copies sold