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On a recent visit to my friend Neil McLynn at Oxford (we met 32 years ago on a Kibbutz in Israel and he is now Dean of Corpus Christi College) I had the singular experience of having dinner with the fellows. Felt mildly Harry Potterish for a while.After dinner I fell into conversation with a couple of the Fellows of…

The culture of fear evident in large organisations contains and compresses the potential, creativity, innovative thinking, playfulness and, simply, productivity. This sounds like the roverbial blinding flash of the obvious however it is more complex than this. Take a look at Clay Shirky's concept of 'Cognitive Surplus' http://laughingsquid.com/clay-shirky-on-cognitive-surplus/. He articulates and labels what we all know intuitively or at least to…