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how well can you manage if a crisis overtakes you?
Welcome back to all of those who have taken time off over the holiday season and are re-joining those of us who have had to, or like me have chosen to, work through.
It has been a fraught couple of weeks for some with a series of disasters some of which are ongoing. These things can happen on any day of the year, but when they happen at a time when many are expecting to be celebrating they are more poignant. Read more…
The Monday Musings blog – 2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,600 times in 2014. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.
In a change to our advertised programme…
In a change to our advertised programme this morning we bring you some random musings. Read more…
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going – Goethe
This one is a bit of a double edged sword maybe. You can work with it from a couple of angles as least. Read more…
it’s not scope creep; it’s business as usual
My dislike of management speak is well documented here, but I still have to deal with its use on a daily basis and one such expression that has cropped up a lot over the last couple of weeks is Scope Creep. Read more…
musing on excess over the festive season
“Everyone has lots of leftovers at Christmas” said the voice from the TV as I was washing up after dinner this evening. Read more…
three things you need to succeed
There are three aspects to performance that everything else hangs on. Without them you can function, but if you want to achieve anything specific you need all three. Read more…
Indignation plays no part in objectivity.
This was something that came to me when reviewing the notes from a mentoring session last week where we had been working on dealing with unwelcome feedback. Read more…
feeling the force
Last week I talked about celebrating mistakes, and that was still fresh in mind when I read something on social media about trusting your instincts and that makes a nice connection. Read more…
why not celebrate your failures?
It is always great to talk about your successes, But for a few months now I have been writing about projects where have had problems, where we made mistakes, didn’t cover all of the angles, made assumptions or maybe took our eye off the ball types of scenario. Read more…
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