Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I'm thinking a lot about distributed networks at the moment, decision-making, conversations and how much community 'platforms' have moved on.
I'm not sure I even believe in the 'platform' concept any more as it so loaded a word with so many centralised implications. As well as this inherited value, so much ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
We had a great knowledge cafe last Thursday about storytelling. The magnificent personal impact coach and storyteller Tim Sheppard gave us a swift yet thorough overview, starting and finishing with a powerful tale about 'Truth' and 'Story' with plenty to think about in between.
Storytelling and narrative analysis bounced back into ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
"... But be warned, first of all, that a man gets an answer to his questions in accordance with his fitness to understand and his own preparation..."
From 'The Food of Paradise', approx 17th Century Persian tale
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
"What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."
(Georg Wilhem Freidrich Hegel, Lectures On The Philosophy Of History, seen in The Guardian Weekend magazine, 11/10/08)
Or as my friend Gary said ...
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