building the body of knowledge

let others learn from our mistakes

ok to make mistakes

Why does a body of highly intelligent people, IT professionals allegedly renowned for their logical and systematic approach to problems, find it impossible to establish a genuinely sustainable and cumulative corpus of best practice, professional knowledge and lessons learned?
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an effective personal productivity toolkit

BadCo toolbox

How do we pick the right mix of so-called personal productivity tools, when every day brings a fresh new flood of ‘apps’ to an already crowded market?
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language of incoming management

a new broom speaks clean

Banksy Rate

Presidents do it, Prime Ministers do it, even the guy who takes over the local pub does it: the new broom always speaks clean. The message is that things are going to be different, from now on. Continue reading article »

Leading from behind

paper crane drop

Here is some advice for budding Thought Leaders: you will probably get more response to your pearls of wisdom if you are two steps behind your audience, rather than two steps ahead of them. Continue reading article »

language directly affects performance

hard times need hard words

Picture credit: Leo Reynolds

Many of us are living through harder times but we still persist with using softer language that often pre-determines weaker performance.
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