Which one are you? Highly committed and bursting with energy the players are the ones we all want working for us and with us. These are the ones that we, hopefully recruit, so what turns them into spectators, good guys who simply lack motivation. Or worse into corpses, the description is unfortunate though probably not [...]
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Do you analyse data or merely collect it?
February 16, 2010
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We collect data. We collect it hopefully to help make decisions. Data on its own is OK, but it is incomplete. There are several stages it needs to go through before it can be used to make informed and decisions. Data acquisition – the process of gathering raw facts. Data collation – the process of compiling the [...]
Read moreIt is not enough to be busy
February 14, 2010
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What are you busy at? (Cecil Parkinson ca. 1985 if I remember correctly?!) Or as Peter Drucker put it: “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” How much of what we routinely do really contributes to the organisation’s or our own goals. If what you are doing is not helping you or your work, then I [...]
Read more Performing well or burning out?
February 10, 2010
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Learn to recognise where you are on the chart, and then admit it, if only to yourself. Aim to move from the creative calm zone to fatigue, and then back to creative calm.
Read more Being in the zone
January 26, 2010
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Flow is that feeling you get when you are using every last part of your energy, abilities, skills, and it is all coming together. That state we have all, hopefully, experienced at least occasionally. The concept was first developed by Hungarian American Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Pron. Chick-sent me high) Csikszentmihalyi describes seven features that characterise flow Completely involved in what one [...]
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Impostor syndrome and an antidote
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- Helpful conversations
- Web 2.0ff
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Being in the zone
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Remembering Steve Jobs
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Apollinaire Said
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300 people helped
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How happy have you decided to be?
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Would Shakespeare have tweeted?
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