Day 82 – 8 May 2014 The Council has invested in some pool cars. I mentioned them back in day 47. There are half a dozen at County Hall and they are there as an alternative to using your own car so that money can be saved. The mechanism is very clever. Once you are … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 82
A year of work in progress – day 78
Day 78 – 1 May 2014 Today I was at the inaugural Dynamo14 conference, along with 350 other ICT professionals and people interested in the North East. I got to make a pitch at a public sector breakout session under the title of collaboration. In case you are interested this is what I said: Good … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 78
A year of work in progress – day 73 (Understand)
Day 73 – 24 April 2014 and day 21 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The key to solving any problem is first to understand. Doing can come later. Our immediate reaction when faced with an issue whether it is a simple problem or a catastrophic disaster is to do something - anything. We … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 73 (Understand)
A year of work in progress – day 72 (Thirds)
Day 72 – 23 April 2014 and day 20 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. ‘Have I ever given you my three jobs speech?’ I say this to my team regularly and they usually shake their heads either because they can’t remember it or more likely they are too polite and know I’m going … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 72 (Thirds)
A year of work in progress – day 70 (Optimist)
Day 70 – 17 April 2014 and day 15 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. I am a congenital optimist, I just can’t help myself. Maybe I was born with it. My glass is always half full, the grass is always greener on my side of the fence and life is a string of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 70 (Optimist)
A year of work in progress – day 69 (Newton)
Day 69 – 16 April 2014 and day 14 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. This should really have been called: Newton’s laws of motion and the role of physics in local government part 4 Sir Isaac Newton was a clever man. His laws of motion were first compiled in his work Philosophiæ Naturalis … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 69 (Newton)
A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
Day 67 – 14 April 2014 and day 12 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. Before I start, lunch is a useful weapon, learn to use it wisely. In a previous piece ‘Learning to Play’ , I described how in our doctors’ surgery there is a small wooden box that sits in the waiting … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 67 (Learning to live, learning to play)
A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
Day 66 – 9 April 2014 and day 8 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. The insurance market in the UK is dysfunctional. It works well, there’s lots of competition but it is still dysfunctional. I say this because every time my insurance is due for renewal I have to go through the same … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 66 (Home cover)
A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
Day 65 – 8 April 2014 and day 7 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. It’s the panda breeding season. It’s the time of year when love is in the air for Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the Edinburgh pandas (and presumably all other pandas) and soon we may hear the patter of tiny … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 65 (Gestation)
A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
Day 64 – 7 April 2014 and day 6 of the A to Z Blogging Challenge. We need to think more about flow. Work should flow through our organisations. Ideas and opportunities should fall like rain and gather in streams and rivulets before coming together in a mighty river, sucked to the sea by the … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 64 (Flow)
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 