I’m about to do a fireside chat in Berlin

One of my happy places since the 1970s

Many thanks to everyone for their birthday wishes. Far too many to answer individually but they were much appreciated. But the best was this from my 9 month old granddaughter Alex, to her Taid.

Well that was a ‘nice’ 70th birthday present. Finnair happily issued me a boarding pass for an exit row seat last night but then switched it when I got to the gate. They claimed I had said I was not fit to operate the exit row, but if that was the case (and I am pretty sure I…

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My favourite place to stay in the Lakes with the first target of the day, Yewbarrrow, in background

This year I’m in the audience

Midsummer Nights Dream at the The RSC is one of the top three productions I have seen there over the last three decades

Only the British could create a university system with elements of Soviet Perestroika, 1970s corporate cost allocation, early New Labour target culture and Osborne's austerity - selecting some of the worst of each. Will have the same results.

“Strategy as Problem-Solving”. The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters. press.armywarcollege.edu/cgi/viewconten… #Cynefin #Complexity cc. ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 Simon Wardley SR Bolton Roger L. Martin

Ticket gone that was fast

Ended up with a spare ticket for Wales v Italy if anyone is in Cardiff looking for one.

Does anyone know what it means for a KM Consultancy to be 'knowledge management ISO certified'? Who is responsible for said certification?

It's taken a few days, as it is a long post, but there is the third of the St David's Day series, the much-awaited update to Estuarine Mapping - with a 'Big Scary Diagram' as an added extra: thecynefin.co/cynefin-st-dav…

Staying at the entry to the Panama Canal

The philosopher Mary Midgley used to argue that Descartes separated the body from the soul to provide a safe space for science. After all, he was writing only a few decades after Bruno had died and only a few years after Galileo's trial. However, while understandable, that split…

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