This week I have learned: when I saw a queue of traffic for the first time in months, it felt somewhat sad. I've enjoyed the quiet.the power of a shopping trolley analogy.our new MP is very responsive on Twitter. This is a good thing.I need to think about my corporate "brand". That I know this … Continue reading Weeknote 486: now that was a CPU
Category: Themes
In the course of my research for Who Shares Wins, I was told the possibly apocryphal story of how email was introduced into a law firm back in the early 1990s. The senior partners had been sceptical about this new-fangled communications medium, and had resisted its introduction. However a more tech-friendly group of employees started … Continue reading Let them play
As a part of my current mini side project #NotAWebinar I was watching a clip from the psychologist and former NBA star John Amaechi. In it he talked about how behaviours that would be otherwise unacceptable in modern life are tolerated if not positively encouraged in the world of sport. He talked of a hypothetical … Continue reading Management by decree
This week I have learned: The fun to be had by encouraging people to be evil (as a learning activity)That Miro seems to be pretty goodThat someone's you need an outsider's validationTim Geraghty does good presentationsI really don't like flag-wavingThis is probably still the beginning of the beginning. Next week: coaching The week in photos:
Every so often, the polarity of the Earth's magnetic field switches. Geomagnetic reversal is a phenomenon that seems to happen at random, and has been observed through a natural records as having occurred 183 times in the last 83 million years. In the "list of stuff that I would worry about (but not unduly) at … Continue reading The world turned upside down?
Amidst all of the horror and the madness, the recurring theme of "The will change the world of work forever" keeps popping up on my various timelines. There's no doubt that a number of assumptions about who can and can't work remotely have been crushed in the past few weeks. Although that will be little … Continue reading What comes next? The New Abnormal
This week I have learned: #CoffeeRorschach is probably the silliest thing I've done in a while, but it gives me great amusement.That multiple video thing in Zoom. Can't work out if it's useful or just a pleasing gimmick.This "event" is giving an opportunity to examine sacred cows.It's very easy to slip into not doing any … Continue reading Weeknote 480: Coffee
A Simon Heath-inspired trio of Easter bunnies The week in photos:
Imagine that tomorrow your government announced that a new App was to be released. That every citizen over the age of 16 would be obliged to install this app on their phone, and would be duty-bound to carry the phone around with them at all times. Travelling without a phone with the active app install … Continue reading Hard choices
The first organisation in which I worked that really did a lot of conference calling was Reuters. I found it really hard some times when a whole group of people, very expensively co-located in plush offices in the centre of London's Canary Wharf, would be forced to sit at desks and individually dial into meetings … Continue reading One-to-one-to-one-to
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