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It’s funny how life can jump up and hit you in the face. I had my day mapped out today. I was planning to do my least favourite activity – calling people to market a new workshop I’ve developed. I went to my favourite cafe to psych myself into it and…

I’ve just been going over some of Henry Mintzberg’s writing and came acros this article (payment required, sorry) by Mintzberg, Robert Simons and Kunai Basu. The authors argue that the notion of ‘shareholder value’ to the exclusion of all other…

This is a deeply moving, thought provoking, and challenging book which goes to the very heart of what it is to be a leader and even further intow what it means to be human. Peter Senge’s Introduction beautifully sets the stage for this book: For many years I…

You might think this piece belongs over in my politics&rants blog – however that’s more for venting spleen than reasoned thought. No, reflections on leaders (political or otherwise) is always good fodder for chriscurnow.com. This piece about Reagan is…

In these days of national standards (which in my mind relate to narrowness and mediocrity) it’s refreshing to see educators re-inforcing that schools are about producing “people who can think, create and innovate – and not just pass exams”….

Apparently there is some research running around in the blogoshpere suggesting that women are under-represented here. Charles Wright had a related piece on it in his blog Bleeding Edge (we must point out that Charles didn’t say that women don’t blog…

You might notice that chriscurnow.com has a lot to say about relationships between the sexes. It’s probably been the dominant theme here since we got started. For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to repair relationships between men and women. For a long…

You’ll see a new link on the right – Photo Album. I still need to do some work on this but I think I’ve solved all the technical issues. Again – blogging as Therapy. Thanks again to Elise

Subtitle: I’ll never look at Birkenstock the same way again I pinched this title from a paper by Art Kleiner of roughly the same name. I’ll come back to Kleiner shortly. Jason Kottke, kottke.org led me to thinking about this with a reference to a Michael…