This morning's coffee companion is a technologist who has spent much of his career in the Civil Service. We talked about: the amorphous nature of friendship in these digital times the challenges of managing technology in the public sector getting to the end of the road with working in Government writing ringtones the strange nature … Continue reading 47th and 48th of 100
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Today's coffee companion is regularly on the telly. By day he's a consultant, focused on accessibility. We talked about: a mutual friend my career changes in the last few years the challenges of keeping your offer fresh when you work as a consultant the joy of cards getting introduced to some magicians how playing cards … Continue reading 46th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a former digital artist, now writer and journalist. We talked about: relocating out of London the distraction of having a nice view out of your office window freelance working changing industry sectors the impact that AI is having on writers how writing in the output from a thought process, not the … Continue reading 45th of 100
Today's coffee companion is a consultant who specialises in organisational transformation. We talked about: Our respective experiences What I am learning from the #100coffees experience the work of Aiden McCullen how there are on average 73 days between 1st January and Easter, and this is the time when there is best opportunity to get anything … Continue reading 44th of 100
Today's coffee companion works in the world of learning and development. We talked about: the crazy competitive world of professional musicianship how many professional musicians are so unsure of their own abilities the importance of serendipity the pejorative view that some have of networking how hard it can be to ask people for things, especially … Continue reading 43rd of 100
How very Douglas Adams. Today's coffee companion is a leadership consultant. We talked about: our respective career histories the PlayCards the way in which playing cards allow people to interact with ideas differently the importance of playfulness in work leadership, and why Servant Leadership is such a strange term to use the importance of leaders … Continue reading 42nd of 100
This morning's coffee companion is a wonderfully innovative individual. We talked about: what we have been up to since we last met the value of unconstrained, agendaless conversations to generate serendipitous events whether this conversation should count as a #100Coffees coffee or not how coffee is a metaphor the things that are currently being looked … Continue reading 41 of 100
Today’s coffee companion is a Chief Operating Officer for a scale-up company involved with mental health support. We talked about: The dismal state of UK politics The challenges of rearing kids with ADHD The strange lack of contentment amongst Western migrant workers in the Middle East Country versus City living American startups buying up industries … Continue reading 40th of 100
This afternoon's coffee companion is a Learning & Development professional working from Canada. We talked about: learning about learning in the armed forces the difference between corporate leadership and military leadership how the class system reflects in the Officer structures in the British military how long it takes to train engineers in the air force … Continue reading 39th of 100
This morning’s coffee companion is a consultant who helps clients to build better skills for innovation and networking. We talked about: The need for organisations to introduce playfulness to help innovation actually happen Our own peculiar career paths and the twists and turns we have both taken (Inevitably) the PlayCards The peculiar nature of academia, … Continue reading 38th of 100
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