So I've just about completed my first day of my mobile-only life, and I didn't resort to tablet, laptop or desktop all day. If I was going to crack, I figured this day, working from home, would be the one where it would happen. Very early on I realised that using my phone with a … Continue reading Going mobile: Day1: it’s all in the detail
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Last week I got a peculiar invitation to connect on LinkedIn. It was from someone who I had never heard of, apparently holding a senior HR role in a multinational law firm. A few other people I knew were connected to him, but it didn't feel right. I pinged off messages to those I knew … Continue reading The power of the network
So I'm at the beginning of the mobile-only experiment. Alongside the phone and keyboard, I've a charger and a Powergen Mobile Power Pack. That latter accessory is nothing new - I've become accustomed to having to lug that spare battery around with me as usually by lunchtime on a trip into London my phone is … Continue reading Going Mobile: Day 0
Last week I got hold of a cheap Bluetooth keyboard to use with my laptop. Then I had an idea... why not use it with my phone and see whether the time is right to be able to ditch the laptop entirely? This isn't a unique experiment. My long-time chum Euan Semple experimented with an … Continue reading Going Mobile
In Dan Pink's wonderful book To sell is human there is a chapter that describes six ways to pitch an idea, a product or even yourself. The one that I found most interesting was what he called the Subject Line Pitch. Imagine the best email subject line in the world, and Pink argues it will contain three … Continue reading The one thing that all LinkedIn all-time top ten posts have in common
"#HR needs to stop reporting and start predicting" - Michael Carty, twitter.com/mjcarty The quote above from Michael on Twitter this morning (you can see the full thing here https://twitter.com/MJCarty/status/493812100138287104) got me thinking. It mostly got me thinking about how I seem to be developing a particular breed of Big Data iconoclasm these days. The reason Michael's … Continue reading Big data: The tyranny of the past
I got into an interesting discussion last week about an incident in a friend's local supermarket. An elderly neighbour had locked herself out of her house, and in a state of distress went to the supermarket (a small branch of one of the massive chains) to ask to use their telephone. The request was flatly refused. … Continue reading The power of authority
About four years ago I decided to take my career on a new path. I had spent much of the preceding two decades working in IT of one form or another, but needed to change. In my early thirties I'd set myself the goal of becoming a CIO by the age of 40. When I was … Continue reading Career planning
Today marks the 101st anniversary of my grandfather's birth. It also marks the end of the first year of my foray into the world of entreprenuerism. A year down, and it has to be said that it's been hard. I was utterly over optimistic about how and where clients would come from, and although I am … Continue reading Bertie Day
I don't often get to listen to the "Thought for the Day" slot on Radio 4's Today Programme - and I tend to mentally switch off if I do because I'm irked by the idea that only the religious can display morality that seems to underpin the whole shebang. However one did catch my ear late … Continue reading Mixed virtues
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