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Getting shit done
Are you wasting your time reading this? Hopefully not. Manage your time There are many books, endless tips and cheats and whole...
Feb 63 min read
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Why certainty is under-valued
Decisions Decisions We live in uncertain times. With uncertainty comes risk. With risk comes gain or loss, delay, mitigation, hedging,...
Jan 312 min read
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Above all else ... be kind
Be Kind LinkedIn is the modern way to keep in touch professionally with people that you would otherwise lose contact with, or even...
Jan 203 min read
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I don't really have time for all this.
Time: master or servant? Anniversaries? .....Meaningful milestones? or just a function of the Gregorian calendar which itself ...
Jan 133 min read
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Don't just bring a problem. Bring the answer
bring the answer ... not just the problem Who are the people that you most value in your team ..... it's those people that bring...
Jan 82 min read
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Team Dynamics and cognitive bias
making decisions is fraught with challenges Cognitive biases can have a profound impact on team dynamics and collaboration, often leading...
Dec 27, 20242 min read
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Time to give the same love to both of HR's book-ends?
off-boarding also needs some attention I read a post on LinkedIn re an ulitimately distressing retirement process for a long term valued...
Dec 17, 20243 min read
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REALLY great design matters.Â
Think DESIGN What is design? Is it only a tangible thing that applies to physical objects like cars, phones, hairdryers (whatever they...
Dec 10, 20242 min read
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Innovate or die ...
This is Mabel. She is a disruptive innovator. and, as it happens, occasionally a destructive one. "What possible interest is this to me?"...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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The minefield of directness
BLUNT...... The most-used word to describe the Dutch (alongside TALL, of course). Having worked for a Dutch group for almost 19 years,...
Nov 25, 20242 min read
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Working 9 to 5 ... why a strong work ethic is so important
Anyone who read this title and didn't hear Dolly Parton..... Workin' nine to five, what a way to make a livin' Barely gettin' by, its all...
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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Beware the middle ground.
I walked around most of the UK grocery majors stores the other day. I haven't done this for a while - all together in one day. The stark...
Nov 12, 20243 min read
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To boldly go....
I had an interaction recently where the a management team shied away from what appeared to be an obvious step in expressly stating...
Oct 29, 20242 min read
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Growing pains of "Generation Alpha"
I wrote a piece about Generation Z a while ago. it concluded that whilst the latest generation to enter the workforce might be seen as...
Oct 20, 20244 min read
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The case for humble leaders
In today’s fast-paced environment, it’s more apparent than ever that no one in a business, not even the CEO, has all the answers. And why...
Oct 16, 20242 min read
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Find passion in what you do
One of the defining characteristics of effective leaders is passion. An unswerving and enthusiastic belief in what they are doing, or the...
Oct 7, 20242 min read
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So who the hell did move my cheese?
One of the best books on the subject of how we react to change is "who moved my cheese" by Spencer Johnson. I recommend it. It's a simple...
Oct 1, 20242 min read
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Don't believe everything you read
"Who the hell spins these days?" ...... That was the reaction of a post on linkedin that crossed my feed. It as written by someone in a...
Sep 27, 20242 min read
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Really listening is a vital life skill
We all hear, to some degree, what goes on around us every day. The world constantly competes to be heard, as a cacophony of noise vies...
Sep 18, 20243 min read
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Keep it simple stupid
The word "simple" can be used in different contexts. It's perverse that it can be used (often rudely) to allude to lower intelligence -...
Sep 10, 20242 min read
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Retirement. What I have learnt.
Two of the great, but under-rated, songwriters and artists of our time (Paul Carrick and Mike Rutherford) penned the song "Over my...
Sep 2, 20243 min read
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Plus ça change - the generation game.
There was a TV show that held the nation captive each Saturday night called the generation game. Hosted originally by Bruce Forsyth. The...
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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Dictum Meum Pactum ... my word is my bond.
Ethics, put simply, are the moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or conduct. No one really talks about ethics in day to day...
Aug 20, 20243 min read
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Appraisals suck!
OK here goes - it's heresy to say this, I know. But appraisal processes generally suck. Almost all people see the process (as opposed to...
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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