Yesterday I made another trip into the office. Here's what I am learning... Unless you simply don't have adequate space to work at home, there is no point whatsoever in going into an open plan office to sit on conference calls all day. Sitting on a conference calls in an open plan office is a … Continue reading WFO (Working From Office)
This week I have learned: Leadership is not about being superhuman. It's actually about being human.Curveballs get thrown.Certain professions seem geared to over promise and under-deliver.Customer service without a sales motive might just be a cargo cult.Anyone who is certain about what's going on is probably a charlatan...... but of course we flock to them.The … Continue reading Weeknote 554: departures
"We need new systems. The old ones don't work. They're all fragmented and siloed. We need to work better together. We need to break the silos." That's a made up quote, but a recounting of a story that I have heard in many different organisations over many years now. And increasingly it feels like it's … Continue reading The Semiotics of Software
This week I have learned: to reflect on how hierarchy impacts on the way in which I think about things.that a quick response in the first instance doesn't help if then nothing happens.that Podcast Powered Projects are a thing again.the importance and significance of pronouns... I and my versus We and Our in particular.that there … Continue reading Weeknote 553: hierarchy
This week I have learned: What it’s like to have the hope of a solution taken away at the eleventh hour.that challenges in the provision of healthcare are challenges in multi-disciplinary and multi-agency collaboration.how in times of stress people revert to type.that the League Cup doesn’t mean anything anyway.that the anthropological viewpoint might be a … Continue reading Weeknote 552: multiple precipices
This week I have learned: You can't count on an anesthesiologist being availableHybrid can work, but you need to planDrivers and visions aren't one of the sameConversations about the cards are progressing nicelyI missed seeing them allShifting mindsets from waterfall to agile is really hard Next week: iterations
The idea of organic and synthetic data came up again today. I came up with a new metaphor to explain it... Back when I started taking digital photos back in 2002 (nearly 20 years -sheesh!), the cameras that I used would record a fair bit of metadata about the image when it was taken. The … Continue reading Organic and synthetic data
There's a lot of talk about "hybrid" working these days, but probably not a lot of clarity about what it actually might mean. For me there's one key question: how do you allow groups of people to effectively interact when some of them are sharing the same physical space and others are "dialling in". Traditionally … Continue reading Bridging the divide
This week I have learned: how the Prisioner's Dilemma can explain many of the challenges for prioritisation across a business.that whilst events might now be happening in person, people aren't necessarily attending them.no matter how many times I check, if I think something is happening at 3pm I will see the appointment in my diary … Continue reading Weeknote 550: The prisoner’s dilemma
This week I have learned: quite how much my eldest likes his new school blazer (how much? a lot)how the dynamics of a group can be shaped by so fewhow overwhelming complexity can becomethat the ethics project is right on trackthat I'm already missing Troythat petrol is really messythat I might have a publisherinevitably you … Continue reading Weeknote 549: Secondary School
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