Insights

KaosPilots Again

Uffe Elbaek, the founder of the KaosPilots Schools, spoke at a conference in October 2006. It was held at the most evocatively named Conference Centre I have ever come across:  Grouse Mountain Lodge:  Whitefish Montana. Background on the KaosPilots is here. The logic behind the schools was:  "How do we teach students to navigate through
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Enterprise in the UK

I thought this image of Enterprise in action would illustrate the significance it holds for us in our hearts!  In case  you can’t see it, it is a portacabin with the magnificant name of ‘Enterprise House’.
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Travelling or Arriving?

Apologies for the length of this. Is it better to travel than arrive? Having left home on a cold, foggy morning at 5am to travel to Heathrow and the chaos of cancelled flights, you would put your money on arrival! We got away to Madrid, however, with only a 30 minute delay.  Then the long,
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Another Girl Another Planet

Astonishingly, I phoned Vodafone this morning and the ‘music whilst we connect you’ was the very same song I wrote about yesterday in Meme 1 below.  What are the odds? That song is 25 years old and faded into obscurity 24 years ago. it cheered me up on a bleak phone problems morning. Nic Price,
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Values: Merrill Lynch

Carved into the stone of the wall behind reception at Merrill Lynch’s London base are their five values: Client focus Respect for the individual Teamwork Responsible citizenship Integrity Would you be inclined to sign up to a company that had those values? I would. 
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5 Things Meme

I have been asked byDonald Taylor , who in turn was asked by Clive Shepherd to list 5 things that people do not know about me. This meme has been running all over the internet. 1. One of Donald’s favourite songs, so famous that it is part of his Desert Island list is "Another Girl
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The Corporate Choir

On Monday night BBC 1 finished screening the three part documentary – the Choir- showing how Northolt School in north west London went from never having a classical choir to competing in the Choir Olympics in China in ten months from a standing start. It was a fantastic tribute to the kids and to the
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A Moon for the Misbegotten

There is a fabulous play on at the Old Vic in London.  I can’t urge you to go and see it as it finishes on Saturday and the run is sold out…unless of course you find yourself on Broadway in the new year where it transfers.  It is Eugene O’Neill’s final play: A Moon for
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CIPD On the Evaluation Trail

Martyn Sloman – he of CIPD Training Adviser fame- has been turning his gaze to evaluation issues. He thinks that the Kirkpatrick model should be quietly buried and replaced by something more fit for purpose in this new century and he has commissioned the Univeristy of Portsmouth Business School to lead on a study to
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The Kaospilot Schools

I have just picked up the lecture given by Uffe Elbaek at the RSA in September.  He set up the Kaospilot School (now there are four of them) in Aarhus in 1991.  It is a radically different, three year undergraduate programme helping young people prepare for a world of work that is based on innovation
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