Today's second companion is a former CIO who now does various bits of consulting We talked about the scourge that is Performance Management, and I once again unloaded some of the scars that were left on me in my time at Microsoft at the peak of their forced curve obsession. We talked about biodiversity as … Continue reading 8th of 100
Category: 100 Coffees
Today's #100coffees coffee companion is a management coach who came from the world of marketing strategy. We talked about the importance of loose connections and how relationships that exist between people from different organisations are often stronger than those that exist between people within organisations - exploring a metaphor of organisations as families where just … Continue reading 6th of 100
A couple more virtual (and tea-based) coffee catch-ups today to close off the first week back at work in 2023. The first was with a colleague based in the Manchester office. We talked about how we might as an organisation introduce more Service Design and User Centred Design work into what we do with clients, … Continue reading 4th and 5th of 100
And so the experiment gets properly underway. A fascinating and broad-ranging conversation with a technology architect this morning where we covered a whole load of things. Another tea and this was the first virtual (Zoom-based) session. I picked up on the Enterprise Architecture on a Page initiative (http://eaonapage.com/) which has used some proper research to … Continue reading 3rd of 100
After a bit of a flying start at the end of 2022, I'm now ready for the enormous conversational percolator that will be #100Coffees in 2023. As I alluded to in this recent post, I think that we in a hybrid working world now need to get a bit more deliberate in finding those moments … Continue reading New Year, New Beverage
Yes, that's not coffee. It's jasmine tea. I said from the outset that other beverages were available. Today's beverage came after a lovely Chinese meal in Paddington. The conversation was another thriller: My companion is currently working transforming an electoral authority, running national government elections. The scaling challenges are mind-blowing- usually the authority have around … Continue reading 2nd of 100
I know that it's not yet technically 2023, but it's a relatively quiet week and so yesterday I popped into a local cafe to meet with an old connection to have the first of 100 (at least) coffees for the year ahead. It was a wide-ranging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation. We spoke about the changing … Continue reading 1st of 100
The really big draw for me to join Equal Experts earlier this year was how it is managed. In my role, I don't have a manager. I don't have a performance review or annual targets. The business operates on the assumption that its employees are autonomous and able to get on with things without being … Continue reading 100 coffees*
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