This week I have learned... the rapid bipolar nature of being a micro business is exhilarating and exhausting. One minute everything is wonderful, the next you're on the verge of ruin. And repeat. Rapidly. Seeing how other's businesses have expanded in humbling and makes me feel like I'm playing at it. But play is at … Continue reading Weeknote 438: Taking stock
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This week I have learned: procrastination about things you are anxious about is a fool's game. Face the fear. ...unless it's a dead parakeet, in which case just leave it. work opportunities are like buses. Conversion is still the challenge, though. Next week: back to the Wharf. The week (fortnight) in photos:
For a year or so now I've been playing with the role of tactility in consulting processes. Well, that's a good retrospective justification of what I've been doing - what I've actually been doing is creating and playing with different sets of the Priority Cards. Nonetheless, it's become an exercise in understanding the role of … Continue reading The remarkable world of touch
We are constantly confronting the need for change in our organisations. Change at an institutional level, at a team level all the way down to the actions and behaviours of individuals. The world around us is mutating, and we need to adapt to accommodate that change. Yet if you ask people why they can't change, … Continue reading Be more firefighter
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This week I have learned: the gulf in class between 1st and 11th in the Premier League the amazing sense of togetherness in defeat that the 30,000 Watford fans at Wembley experienced The delight to be had in catching up with old friends... ...but also the scary sense of how time is passing that results … Continue reading Weeknote 435: togetherness
This week I have learned: The podcasting thing is working A hotel just outside Watford is, when push comes to shove, still a hotel just outside Watford Excitement nonetheless is building Catching up with old friends makes you realise you should make more effort Lego. Is. The. Future. Man they've tarted up Aviation House. The … Continue reading Weeknote 434: FA Cup
Today marks two anniversaries in my professional life; the 9th of me writing my first Weeknote, and the 6th of launching the Stamp thing onto the world. I'm quite amazed that I've been able to keep up the weeknoting habit. Started after a reading an article in Wired, and thinking it seemed like a good … Continue reading Anniversary notes
This week I have learned: it costs around £200k to put a poster around the Waterloo IMAX for a fortnight it costs about £7 to put a little advert on a tube train for the same period of time closing is hard the dismal weather is wearing tactility and touch is really complicated I'm still … Continue reading Weeknote 433: data
This week I have learned: the Podcast-Powered Projects stuff might just be the best idea I've yet been involved with. the book is continuing to develop. the WB-40 listenership are lovely, lovely people. concerns about my impending trip to Debtors' Gaol have been marginally assuaged (but, you know, I'm always available for weddings, funerals, bar-mitzvahs … Continue reading Weeknote 432: Podcasting Plenty
