Ready, Steady… Manage

So the last post described what I wanted. Now some tips about how I read a CV. So make sure you write your CV to support my reading of it. Contrary to some advice – I don’t really mind how many pages the CV has. I care about the relevancy of the information and that [...]

I have grown more aware of the passage of time over the years. Not just in the sense of growing older, but as a manager my time gets split between multiple foci. As a team member I typically had one or two tasks or priorities. At the end of the day I generally knew what [...]

I have a problem with many business and management books. so many of them seem to have one idea, or 10 ideas strung out for 250 pages with lots of boring stories and examples, or worse – written in parable form. I really just want to get to the meat and substance of the book. [...]

People tend to meet expectations, their own, and those of the people who they have a relationship with. I assume most people have encountered, even if 2nd hand, “Pygmalion In The Classroom” – the 1968 study of kids and teachers expectations. I see no reason why the same dynamic does not work in business.

My son and I played with with his train set a couple of days ago. We had made “an accident track” – a perilous system of curves and hills where trains regularly fall off. Now if he only had one or two trains then they would have enough space between them, and no accidents would [...]

ChangeThis.com acts as a monthly source for ‘new’ ideas. I subscribed to their bulletin so every month I get an email reminder detailing the new manifestos that ChangeThis have selected for e-publication. They also provide an rss feed to keep you up to date with the manifesto publications. 5 Recent Manifestos that caught my eye [...]

If you do not already subscribe to John Seddon‘s Vanguard Newsletter then you simply must. John Seddon authored the books "Freedom from Command and Control" and "I want you to cheat" both of which I will write reviews for at a later date. Both of which I recommend as essential to help you think about [...]