On Monday and Tuesday next week I have the great privilege to be chairing the Inside Housing Connected Futures Summit in Manchester. Over the past few months I've been involved in helping to shape the event, which is a chance for change-focused people from across the Housing industry to gather together and discuss some of … Continue reading Pitfalls of the future
Every so often I'll try to read something a bit leftfield as it's often the way I can unlock thinking in my own world. So it was with reading Simon Winchester's Exactly: How precision engineering created the modern world. There's something fascinating about how the history of technological development can help to shape our understanding … Continue reading Why invest?
This week I have learned: the joy of being able to run sessions with cards in personthat the podcast is good fun on the road, but never trust another sound guythe unforeseen consequences of psychological safetythat I'll be panelling with the best of them in Manchester the week after nextthat 30 years after helping to … Continue reading Weeknote 556 – eventing
Right at the beginning of the recent article I posted about experiences of going back into an office recently I noted that there are many people for whom an office is a regular need, not a occasional diversion. I'm in the hugely privileged position to have space enough to work from home comfortably and productively. … Continue reading Future office
Earlier in the week I got the chance to play with the PlayCards with a group of two-dozen technology leaders at this autumn’s IT Directors’ Forum. Whilst I’ve run a few games now online using virtual versions of the cards in Miro, this was the first time I was able to try out physical versions … Continue reading PlayCards Field notes: more games to play
This week I have learned: that that darn flowchart is back again (I love it really).many things about going into the office.that finding common ground is a way to change people's minds.that the podcast might be doing a retreat next year.that it's definitely autumn.that my ageing eyesight isn't so bad that I need bifocals. Yet.that … Continue reading Weeknote 555: viral repetition
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
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