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This post continues my thoughts on the learning journey I experienced in writing a book. The topics covered include:

• emotional challenge
• time for reflection
• serendipity
• going on a learning journey

This series of posts are from the foreword to the book I have spent the past two years writing. This post talks about:

• learning from the past
• people never were subordinate
• empowerment

This post is a reflection on Euan Semple’s new book Organisations Don’t Tweet; People Do in the context of what I am trying to do with The Smart Work Company. Three topics are particularly relevant:

·         The opportunity social tools present for taking personal responsibility

·         The language of management and academia

·         Joined-up literacy

"Our theories and ideas have done much to strengthen the management practices that we are now so loudly condeming" Sumatra Ghoshal, 2005 in Academy of Management Learning, vol 4, no 1.

This post is a reflection on Ghoshal's observations on "the pretence of knowledge" and the scientific approach to management. I have been quiet on the blog writing front for about three months. This was in part because I needed to get my head down and get outstanding tasks done. There was something else though: a gnawing feeling that I am hanging back from saying something that has been on my mind for a long time. So here it is.