November 11, 2007
Improv Wisdom Works
My friend, Michael Renouf, read my short entry, "Improv Wisdom", at the end of March and then bought the book by Patricia Ryan Madison. A few days later, following her advice, "Be average" he began a project to post one drawing a day on his new blog. Here we are a few months on and he has well over two hundred drawings up on his site.
Patricia Ryan Madison's book is well worth a read and packs a lot of useful advice into a short volume. For those of you who would like to supplement her punchy practical guide to effective action in the world with a more academic justification of the crucial role of improvisation in organisations and human life, take a look at the late Claudio Ciborra's paper, "Notes on improvisation and time in organizations" - it may change the way you look at the world.
Posted by richard at November 11, 2007 02:53 PMThank you so much for telling readers about my book, Improv Wisdom. Nothing makes a writer happier than to know her work has somehow "hit the mark" and is helping readers. I love knowing about the success of Mr. Renouf. I'd like to look at his web site. I would be grateful to have the url for it, and also any tips on how I might find the Ciborra paper that you mention.
Warm thanks,
Patricia Ryan Madson