Failure

• Failing Fast. Everything is fine until someone (almost) looses an eye.

  July 9, 2026

• Emplotment. The curse of Post Project Learning.

  March 27, 2026

• We need more learning from Bad Practice

  October 20, 2024

• Plans are useless, planning is essential.

  May 27, 2024

• A pencil is an instrument of optimism.

  February 22, 2024

• Tolerated failure imprints learning better than success.

  January 9, 2023

• The race for Second Place (and last but one, 7th)

  December 5, 2022

• Is anyone deploying ‘Innovation and Learning’ people alongside COVID-19 Response Teams?

  March 18, 2020

• Trojan Mice in 900 Seconds

  February 9, 2020

• Regulation, Inspection and Audit. It really, really shouldn’t hurt… and ‘behaviour begets behaviour’.

  January 26, 2020

• Project Learning Reviews are like a Cheese Fondue…

  March 30, 2019

• The Retirement Speech Test. “I wish I’d said that years ago”

  December 26, 2018

• Failure is Not an Option, and Neither is Blame, Most of the Time.

  December 10, 2017

• Its good to have a hobby. Currently mine is #TiL253

  July 11, 2017

• Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good and deviant librarians

  January 15, 2017

• Minimum Viable Transformation: Change should be Small and Imperfect

  February 27, 2016

• 3 Mystery Shopper Tasks for; Executives, Non Executives, Directors and Chiefs

  December 6, 2015

• Good Practice Case Studies, No #Failure? You’re Doing It Wrong.

  November 26, 2015

• Corporate Amnesia: Deliberately Forgetting Failure Can Be Hard Work

  October 30, 2015