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 have told...

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 the most...

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". (See Gary Barker's article...

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 - I'm refering to...

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 time I...

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 Lewis's...

No great perl's of wisdom today. I've spent all night getting Image::Magick installed and then setting up a test photoblog. As always there is a lot of debugging to do and I've just done it. I've set up a test photoblog with two photos in it. Thanks again to Elise at...

Setting up this weblog has been a therapeutic experience for me. It's been an experience that has brought many parts of my self together. Bleeding Edge has some interesting comment on the culture and purpose of blogging. There is something real about ordinary people...

You will see a link on the right to 'Orgdyne'. This list is about organisational dynamics with a particular emphais on a psychodynamic approach to organisations. The list is moderated by Anil Behal who recently started a thread with the same title as this post. To...