Last week I had the pleasure of working with a group of senior HR professionals at The People Space's London event to create the HR edition of the CxO Priorities. If you're not familiar with the CxO Priorities project, they are sets of playing cards that encapsulate things that might be on the mind of senior … Continue reading Working Out Loud: #CHRO Priorities
Category: Other Stuff
I've just read some of the John Doerr book Measure What Matters as the latest title from the WB40 book club. I say "some of" because it's a classic example to prove my theory that you only need to read the first three chapters of most business books. It's good, though. You can hear Chris … Continue reading Stamp OKRs
I got a reminder via LinkedIn this morning that it's now five years since I launched upon this madcap free-range experiment that I call Stamp. Coincidentally it would have been my grandmother's 100th birthday yesterday, and 2013 would have been granddad's centenary. Living to 100 was something that very few of their generation could have … Continue reading Five years
I was born in Northern Ireland in November 1970. Of all the times at which I could have chosen to be born in Northern Ireland (which of course there weren't any), November 1970 was probably just about one of the worst. Northern Ireland in 1970 wasn't a happy place. My dad was a mature student … Continue reading Ir-ish
"Let's do a podcast" I said to Chris back in around September 2016. Slightly surprisingly he said "Yes". The adventure began. This is a post I've been meaning to write for a while, but only now spurred into it by a chance tweet. It describes technically how we put WB-40 together every week. The editorial … Continue reading Podcasting primer
It's that time of year when people predict the year ahead. Strap in... 2018 will be pretty much the same as 2017. Some things will be different. Most of the things that are different will just be following a trend. A handful will be dramatically different. The things that are following trends are the ones … Continue reading 2018 Futureballs
On Thursday my friend and podcasting co-host Chris went for a walk. Since knowing about the 90 Waypoint Walk from seeing Marcus Brown present at Silicon Beach in 2016, it's been singing I've been itching to try. Christmas rambles seemed to be the ideal opportunity. The 90 Waypoint Walk is a route that can be followed anywhere. … Continue reading Walking
I had a great hour or so earlier this week listening to Rowland Manthorpe from Wired talking about the future of money at the inaugural The New Normal session. Rather than the a la mode of talking about distributed ledgers and crypto currencies, Rowland focused instead on data - at the core of his argument … Continue reading The future of money
I've run a lot of workshops. I've attended even more. There have been good, there have been bad. There have been the truly shocking. In all of my years of workshopping, the single tool that I have found to be the most useful is a simple technique for planning rather than any particular technique in … Continue reading Planning a workshop
I, like many others, are fascinated by the concept of cognitive biases. It you want a catalogue of these shortcuts that the brain uses to make sense (often incorrectly) of the world around us, Rolf Dobelli's The Art of Thinking Clearly is highly recommended - although be warned that by the end of reading it you'll … Continue reading Anti-confirmation bias
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