Why do we have nuclear weapons?
by Tony Quinlan on Feb 7, 2011 11:11:36 AM
Saturday night on BBC Parliament (you mean you weren't watching?) saw the broadcast of Lord Hennessy's lecture last week on Cabinets and the Bomb from the Queen's Derobing room in the House of Lords.
Egyptian reflections
by Tony Quinlan on Feb 2, 2011 4:54:10 PM
Slightly brain-fried after two and a half days of an excellent conference - great minds, lots of challenge, but just enough gaps between the discipline/subject experts for me to ask questions. And now on my way to the House of Lords for a lecture by the excellent Peter Hennessy (now L …
Solitude standing
by Tony Quinlan on Feb 1, 2011 11:47:00 AM
A colleague in an organisation I partner with recently asked me for a CV for the website. So far, so normal. Then they asked for a list of presentations - something I've never really pulled together before. So I delved through the conference folders to find those times when I've stood …
You did that on purpose!
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 31, 2011 9:34:05 AM
I'm on the train to Gatwick Airport for an interesting conference over the next three days. The topic's going to be interesting - covering social media, behaviour change and, one of my current interests, how you work with a group who have a fixed narrative - a conspiracy theory of one …
Let the scales fall...
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 27, 2011 4:49:48 PM
The other week I had one of those fun weeks where the situations and people are so different from one day to the next, I was at risk of getting whiplash. On the one hand, I was lucky enough to join Anne McMurray and a group of people running interesting SenseMaker projects in Northern …
The Merger - Some positive feedback, some course adjustments and some signposts on the road ahead
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 26, 2011 7:26:27 PM
Part of my time this year is being spent as an adviser to two organisations that are merging. It makes an interesting example of a merger process. All relevant posts on the process are collected under the Merger tag.
It's not the information, it's not the overload, it's not even trying to be rational
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 24, 2011 1:03:42 PM
Interesting article from the New York Times surfaced yesterday - "In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly". It paints a picture of a difficult situation in Afghanistan where 23 Afghan civilians died as a result of a mistaken attack by US helicopters. In some ways, it reminds me o …
False images of the world
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 17, 2011 3:23:00 PM
Great conversations at a two-day meeting in Miami. On the flight on the way over, I finally got around to starting Joshua Cooper Ramo's The Age of the Unthinkable (subtitled "Why the New World Disorder constantly surprises us and What we can do about it"). It looks to be an interestin …
An unexpected trip to the Memory Library
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 13, 2011 9:29:00 AM
A slightly frustrating day yesterday turned out to have its upside.
Rules should define the space, not fill it
by Tony Quinlan on Jan 12, 2011 5:17:00 PM
John Kay's column in the Financial Times today chimes with a quote that struck me recently: