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could FMs become sought after by other functions?
I’ve been thinking a bit about transportable skills over the last weeks or so, prompted by some mentoring activity for someone who is trying to settle into one discipline, but with a background in an allied, but different field. Such issues will not come as any of my readers from the Facilities Management sphere because many of them, like me, came into FM from other functions. Read more…
Investing in the future is essential
Various factors may have contributed to the decline of our manufacturing capacity, but there are significant elements of the infrastructure that existed to support it still in place and one of these has been providing me with a fair bit of travel recently. Read more…
would you rather be a leader or a manager?
I was reading the other day an on line forum where the difference between a manager and a leader was under debate. That there is a difference between managing and leading I don’t think is at issue, but there is no reason for me why the same person can’t be both, and I would go further and suggest that many of the best leaders are also good managers. Read more…
2012 in review – The Monday Musings blog
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 4,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
Great teams come from characters, not clones
He set out that morning in good spirits; for late December it was a bright day and heading slightly north he didn’t have to worry too much about the low sun in his eyes. The English countryside was at its Winter finest and he felt good about the day to come; a few hours working with a small group who not only sought his advice, but had readily paid in advance. The mile flew by with some help from Classic FM and he was soon turning into the drive of the venue, an old country manor, now a hotel. Read more…
What’s in a word? Usage and Abusage of our Language
Several years ago I was sat on an aeroplane sweltering as we waited what seemed an age in the queue to take off. Having pushed back on time we took nearly an hour to get to the runway, “I hate these moments” I said to my companion, but then I thought some more. Do I really hate anything? There are certainly a lot of things that I don’t like to varying degrees, but hate, no not really. Read more…
the art of time management
Time is a very odd commodity isn’t it; on the one had we measure it with great precision and yet in other ways we are astonishingly casual about it, but time has been on my mind a lot in one way or another over the last week, both in terms of managing it and wondering where it went. How do you manage your time? Read more…
it’s not the third place; it’s an alternative second place at least, but maybe we should call it the fourth place?
Have we established the Fourth Place? A few weeks ago I mused here about developing the Second Place and commented about the hi-jacking of Ray Oldenburg’s well established Third Place for other purposes. This debate flared up again on Twitter at the end of last week where, under the hash tag #worktech, there was more discussion about misuse of both the term and the location. Read more…
A Patient’s Progress – The Book
For those that remember my series of stories on life in hospital, the 20 or so stories that appeared here were a little under half of what I wrote during my stay, and I have pulled the whole work together in an eBook.
As with my previous book it is on Kindle to begin with, but I will start looking at the paperback options in a week or two. You can buy the Kindle edition here: A Patient’s Progress
My hospital sojourn interrupted the process of another book that was also almost ready for publication, and I want to resume work on that with the aim of having it on Kindle before Christmas, so watch this space.
2013 could see a number of publications from me depending on how other work goes; writing is a very time-consuming activity!
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