To bring my guest blogging time to a close here are a couple of ideas from John Kay to mull on: the first is Business lessons from chess grand masters where "People who hold to a single idea, or a fixed design, generally lose in chess, as they lose in battle, in business and in economics."
The second introduces the notion of obliquity: achieving goals by not heading for them directly. Obliquity chimes in nicely with Dave's practice of never asking a direct question when gathering narrative material. In summary: "Obliquity is characteristic of systems that are complex, imperfectly understood, and change their nature as we engage with them."
Pip! Pip!
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Thanks for your very interesting contributions. Are they any other place where you blog?
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April 14, 2008 11:55 AM
Posted on April 14, 2008 11:55
Hi there
And thanks for the feedback! We're in the process of changing our completely out of date static website at www.castletonpartners.co.uk to the Cognitive Edge hybrid web/blog style and looking to blog on. Might be able to persuade Dave S to give us a mention once we're up and running.
regards
Jon
Posted by Jon Kendall | April 14, 2008 5:08 PM
Posted on April 14, 2008 17:08