Random thoughts on things that are half connected to the way I think about HR, L&D, Management, Leadership, business and the world…. and the world of business and the business of the world – David D'Souza (@dds180)
Happy New Year and I hope you all had a great Christmas. I deliberately left you alone and went quiet for a bit - but the relentless, trundling communication will now return in earnest. This post is an update for any authors - or potential authors - wishing to contribute to the follow up to [...]
It was my daughter's birthday at the weekend. Two things happened which made me reflect on the nature of playing games. The first was that Kate Griffiths-Lambeth gave my daughter a game, it was actually a Christmas present, but I wanted my daughter to open it early. The game was one that I've never seen [...]
So, panel discussion on hacking. I love hacking. I like disrupting things. I want to hear more... I hope this is good, as if it isn't and we can't find ways to involve people to change things for the better quickly... well, I'm not sure we deserve a conference to be honest. I'm not entirely [...]
Last Wednesday we launched a book. It was a far from perfect book - I really appreciate the time of the awesome people at Pressbooks who sent me an email full of flaws in the formatting for me to update. Their software was brilliantly useful in helping us create the book before exporting to Amazon. [...]
Let's talk about sex. Recently I read a blog by Neil Morrison about making HR sexy (http://change-effect.com/2013/09/29/get-your-sexy-on/). I agree with it entirely, if you want people to do things differently they need to be interested, if you aren't going to make things interesting - well, you fall at the first hurdle. Quite often we take [...]
I'm failed people and I'm embarrassed. Most of the time your brain is working double time (in the background) to build up a retrospective rationale for the things you have done -so that you can sleep easy at night, in the sound understanding that you did the best you could. That is why your mistakes [...]
The list of authors is growing and is here: http://wp.me/p3wxuY-70 - I'm trying to keep it up to date but there is some lag. Update on yesterday's leak I thought I'd write a brief note explaining what happened yesterday. A chain of events took place (with great intentions sitting behind them) that for a brief [...]
Update and thanksWe are nearing the end of the 'contributing phase' and I'm amazed at what we have achieved in a month. The list below is of the contributing authors and (where they have submitted early) the name of their chapter. I'l be working on confirming a release date over the next couple of weeks. [...]
101 Half Connected Things 