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One of the things that I have struggled most with when working for myself is saying no to new work. When I set  the company up I thought about a reasonable sales objective for the year and I am happy to say that I passed it quite comfortably at the half year point. Perhaps my … Continue reading I didn’t get the job

The recent events at Oxfam have highlighted, once again, the role that ethics has to play in modern organisations. It is impossible and indeed not right, to separate purpose and the ethical stance of those businesses and charities that we deal with. The scandal that has rocked Oxfam over the last few weeks has made … Continue reading My ethical dilemma with Oxfam

I normally make a few resolutions yet rarely write them down. This time I have decided to publish them to keep them fresh in my sights. Here you go then: Publish my second book ‘Paradigms Lost’. It’s all written but I am not sure whether to self-publish or to try and get it through a … Continue reading Happy New Year

Cybersecurity or cyber resilience as I prefer to call it is occupying a lot of my time and mental space these days. I think about it during the day, I mull it over during the evening but having it for breakfast is another matter yet when the Journal, one of our local newspapers, put on … Continue reading Cyber breakfast

Can you  ever be truly liberated at work?  I have been pushing my freedom agenda for a couple of years now.  It has become my mantra. Freedom from location, freedom from hierarchy and freedom from dogma.  It has worked well in some places while in others it is still to get off the ground.   … Continue reading True liberation

We were all asked to gather round just before the Northumbrian Water Group’s Innovation Festival got started to be briefed on how the day would unfold.  It was still early in the morning and the meeting place was in a tented village in Gosforth Park Racecourse. It had been raining overnight and the damp was … Continue reading A daily question

I’m out and about a lot now, Guerrilla Working to the max. I don’t have anywhere to call my own other than home of course. I have achieved the ultimate in a nomadic working style. It is truly liberating. Wherever I lay my Chromebook is my office, in coffee shops, libraries and forgotten corners of … Continue reading Meeting space app

I have seen drawings used in idea creation workshops before. I mentioned this back in January this year, though I was in a different world at that time. Then the people from Infomatum asked us to draw our ideas on Post-It notes and expand our ideas into a single viable proposition. This time it was … Continue reading Crazy 8s

Newcastle isn’t the place that I grew up in. Living in a small market town I’ve grown apart from the place in which I spent so much of my youth. I find I am spending a lot more time there now yet a lot of the places that I frequented have boarded up, moved on … Continue reading Leading Ladies For Life