Reblogged from Felicity Gerry, at Halsbury’s Law Exchange In 2009, Zoe Pemberton, then aged ten, put her grandmother up for auction on eBay ostensibly as a joke. As part of the description she described her grandmother as “annoying and moaning a lot”. She also said that she was “cuddly” and “likes word searches”. The public [...]
April 17, 2012
The short answer to why it's not enough to change organisational strategies, structures and systems
Reblogged from systemsthinkingforgirls: A chief executive thinking. What she thinks will determine the strategies, structures and systems in her organisation. The answer is in bold below. Thank you Peter Senge for writing it down in his book, The Fifth Discipline. “We recognise that transformation can mean many things to many people. As W. Edwards Deming [...]
April 15, 2012
The Power of introverts
40% of us are introverts, 40% are extroverts, with the middle 20% being charmingly described by Susan Cain as ambiverts. Many of the world’s most successfully people are introverts, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, to name but two. Similarly many of the more creative or inventive people are introverts. The world needs introverts, and yet our society and [...]
April 15, 2012
Leadership lessons from James T Kirk
Alex Knapp at Forbes has come up with five leadership lessons from Star Trek’s Captain Kirk. I’ve summarised them here, but really you need to read the whole piece: www.forbes.com/…/james-t-kirk/ 1. Never Stop Learning “You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, an irrational fear of the unknown. But there’s no such thing as the unknown– only [...]
November 22, 2011
Thinking about thinking
It was all going splendidly. I had bought a new house, and been promoted. Life was good. Until one sunny May afternoon I am in my car sitting at traffic lights when the driver behind me has a ‘momentary lapse of concentration’, and runs into me at 35 mph. My car looks as if Superman [...]
November 15, 2011
Failure demand
I recently changed my energy supplier, I expected it to be a straightforward task. I was wrong. It all started with a brief email… I received it from EDF, my new energy supplier, saying they had a message for me. They didn’t tell me what the message was, they simply asked me to visit their [...]
November 7, 2011
Twitter Apps (Updated)
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I started to use it some time ago and rapidly got fed up with the simple Twitter.com interface. I found TweetDeck and loved it. It organised my inbox, my direct messages, and mentions in to separate columns. It had a nice clear, friendly interface. Yet, everyday I’d try and read the increasing number of [...]
October 31, 2011
Netwalking – yes, net-walking
I now manage a Linked In group aimed at HR professionals working in, and with HR in the Cambridge area. We have been doing the networking lunches for some time, so the idea of doing something a bit different appealed. My friend Vandy and I had come across the idea of being active and going for [...]
October 31, 2011
A new blog
For a few years I have been running a free coaching blog. I like doing it and it gets a good number of hits. I will continue to update it. Recently, though I have noticed I wanted to write some stuff that perhaps fitted better elsewhere. I have now moved a couple of posts from [...]
October 30, 2011
TEDx Granta
I am just back from a near-perfect conference. I go to conferences because I am attracted by the sound of the headline speakers. There is the potential for interesting conversations, and hopefully there is a nice venue. And so often I have come back the speakers were OK – they had obviously done their thing too many [...]
May 17, 2012
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