I was reading the excellent Made To Stick by Chip & Dan Heath this week and came across the most brilliant analogy to explain why all organisations – or even projects – need a strategy. “If you’re playing darts and your friend consistently aims too high, you can give useful feedback. But it’s the obvious location of the bullseye that […]
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How to practise
The acclaimed jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis came up with his Twelve Ways to Practice (sic) back in 1996. Even though his forte is music, the lessons are as relevant to most areas of learning, as they are to becoming a music maestro. For example: “Concentrate: You can do more in 10 minutes of focused practice than in an hour of […]
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I’ve just read an interesting piece on the story behind the NASA logo – not the insignia, but the famous ‘worm’ design (above) that was introduced in the 70s. One particular part of the story made me laugh and reminded me how difficult it can be to make intelligent comments about work an external company/agency produces. It concerns a conversation […]
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