The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass is a railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1940, the bridge allows passenger and freight trains to cross over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and also functions as the northbound access to the nearby Durham Amtrak station. Eleven thousand vehicles a day pass along this… Read More The 11foot8 bridge
One of the measures in my book – Proving Impact – is about understanding the context where performance, and learning, happens. I saw the following statistic last week: Since the election was announced, there has been a 53% increase in unique listens to political-specific podcasts, according to Acast and Podchaser data. Acast highlights news podcasts… Read More What matters
I have been a keen user of Twitter/X over the years but, as I’ve said before, it’s becoming more and more unusable. For example, there was a tweet – or is it now a post? – from someone the other day which had, below it, a button next to this message: Show probable spam So… Read More Fixing the wrong problem
Last week someone asked me a great question. What’s the difference between a network and community? It came from a conversation about developing supports for cohorts of people in development programmes. The words were used interchangeably and there is a distinct difference between them. A network will be distributed, have a range of channels where… Read More Networked community
I was speaking with someone about guest speakers for an internal event recently and asked whether it might be better to have specialists in the business act as the speakers – sort of like a masterclass. The fear in their eyes suggested this wouldn’t fly. Aside from a lack of women speakers (are we STILL… Read More Masterclass
Lost and Desperate 