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Continue reading →: A piece of advice
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever received? Not that I received this directly, but I heard it the other day and it stuck with me. Imagine you had 6 months left to live. What would you do with that time? What would you insist on? What would give…
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Continue reading →: Happy now?
What’s a common misconception people have about happiness? People perceive happiness as a future event and not one that is possible right now. Once I have that job, that partner, that car, that house I will be happy, you.migh hear them say. In search of elusive things they determine they…
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Continue reading →: England Expects. But are we measuring success in the right way?England haven’t won the World Cup for 60 years. Yet every tournament begins with the same expectation: this time we’ll win it. It got me thinking about how we measure success in organisations. Most people focus on outcome goals: ✔ Win the tournament ✔ Deliver the project ✔ Hit the…
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Continue reading →: World cup fallouts – what happens when trust leaves two days before project launch?The manager What happens when your project leader departs two days before launch? Your project manager is the glue that binds everything. The key tactician, the one who brings the team together. But what if they were secretly negotiating a new contract with another company while pretending to be focussed…
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Essays and fiction about people, behaviour, and the hidden systems that shape everyday life.
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Essays and fiction about people, behaviour, and the hidden systems that shape everyday life.
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