Today's coffee companion is a reluctant networker. We talked about... barriers to "putting yourself out there" and neurodiversity building relationships with a purpose the horrors of "So what do you do?" toxicity in the workplace, acquisitions and Private Equity being a shit umbrella the Protestant Work Ethic and the license it gives to poor management … Continue reading 123rd of 100
Today's coffee companion is a CEO. We talked about: building software businesses the difference between building products and building software for other people scaling the multi-dimensional nature of Product Management being a generalist, and the empathy that gives you for others T-Shaped versus Comb-shapeds recruiting globally the time it takes to learn a new business … Continue reading 122nd of 100
Today's coffee companion works in Local Government. We talked about: settling in to new roles the challenges of older workforces big suppliers, and the pros and cons of big contracts data integration coming second raising service/user-centred design capabilities working locally 100 Coffees is an experiment in being intentionally unintentional. If you'd like to meet up … Continue reading 121st of 100
This week I have learned: the only time I'm happier than when I am making things is when I am helping people to use the things I've made. Another experiment this week which was a further exploration into how we get better at managing the stuff that goes around our core work with clients. It … Continue reading Weeknote 652 – Craft knife
Today's coffee companion searches for executives... We talked about: how the strangely unseasonal weather is particularly disconcerting when evening comes in early and it gets cold quickly finding a new path to cycle through Battersea the rise of "compensation" and the echoes of the Protestant Work Ethic the importance of semiotics and semantics how few … Continue reading 120th of 100
Yesterday's coffee companion is a systems thinker. We talked about: how doing a Master's degree has realigned his expectations of work and life the allure of the silver bullet model how too many systems thinkers don't apply it to themselves emoji cards graphic equalisers relocating to the sea and starting a shop going beyond reflection … Continue reading 119th of 100
This week I have learned: Sparta Prague are my latest new football team. A splendid night spent at their stadium watching them beat Viktoria Plzen in a top-of-the table clash. Since their adoption as my latest new football team, Sparta lost their Europa League game. The fickleness of football. I do like central Europe. However, … Continue reading Weeknote 651: European football
Today's coffee companion helps other businesses be better. We talked about: how contracts and standard Ts&Cs are struggling to catch up with the way in which software and consulting now operates, especially when it comes to IT the 3D chess of working out the potential impacts of standard Ts&Cs how ultimately it all comes down … Continue reading 118th of 100
Today's second coffee companion is a former CEO. We talked about: the complexity of delivering services as a housing association the various silos that exist within HAs and the resulting system silos that occur Clocks and Clouds Mayonnaise and airliners The scalability of transactions How interactions can't be scaled without turning them into transactions The … Continue reading 117th of 100
Today's first coffee companion is a colleague. We talked about: recent short breaks the dark history of 20th century Central Europe living in Germany the opportunity to work in another country and where we would and wouldn't work or live how a big telecoms company decided to try to build their own iPhone New York … Continue reading 116th of 100
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