There is such hype about apps. Everyone uses them. Everyone has to have them. You’re just not out there if your firm doesn’t have an app. A lot of people agree. There are at least three million of the things to download onto your smartphone or tablet. Beware however as only around five per cent … Continue reading Unfolding plans 196 – App hype
Unfolding plans 195 – let them get on with their jobs.
I finished ‘Maverick’ by Ricardo Semler a week or so back. Mike had lent me the book some time ago and it had been sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. There was something about the cover that made me leave it. Perhaps it was waiting for the right time. Any book though that … Continue reading Unfolding plans 195 – let them get on with their jobs.
Unfolding plans 193 – Buying or selling
We were waiting outside the director’s meeting room in the upper floor of North Tyneside’s office in Cobalt. It was some time ago yet I can recall it vividly. A colleague of mine and I were waiting to be called into a meeting with the directors and neither of us had warmed to the prospect. … Continue reading Unfolding plans 193 – Buying or selling
Unfolding plans 192 – Google has got it wrong @sharemindfully @lldzne #GuerrillaWorking
Google has got it wrong apparently. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, the open office trend is destroying the work place and what is needed are more walls rather than less. It was a good piece yet short on supporting evidence and seems to have been based entirely upon the experiences of the … Continue reading Unfolding plans 192 – Google has got it wrong @sharemindfully @lldzne #GuerrillaWorking
Unfolding plans 191 – Great staff
Another day, another award ceremony. This time it was our very own Great Staff Great stuff awards. It is an opportunity for us to celebrate all of the great work that goes on in the Council. It is very easy to knock what we do and just as easy to highlight the mistakes, the failures … Continue reading Unfolding plans 191 – Great staff
Unfolding plans 190 – The world is my office
For nearly two years now I haven’t had an office or a desk. I have been a nomad, wandering from place to place. I go where the work is or where the opportunity lies. I try to be where I add most value. I get in and back out again before I get too bogged … Continue reading Unfolding plans 190 – The world is my office
Unfolding plans 189 – Scrum down
It looks like I’m going to get to use scrum. We’re going agile with our project methodology. Goodbye PRINCE2, farewell Managing Successful Programmes and hello modernity. Well, not quite but at least it’s a start. Project management is a bit like Enterprise Resource Planning systems. They work very well in certain environments but don’t necessarily … Continue reading Unfolding plans 189 – Scrum down
Unfolding plans 187 – Does it work?
A Frenchmen once said to me ‘I know it works in practice but does it work in theory?’ He asked me in English, though I was in Paris at the time and it seemed a very funny thing to say. It was a long time ago and I have only just come to realise what … Continue reading Unfolding plans 187 – Does it work?
Unfolding plans 183 – Organisational fit
How do I know where I am going to be in five years’ time? I struggle sometimes to know where I am going to be tomorrow let alone that far ahead. Yet that is what I’m being asked to think about as part of our organisational fit or org-fit as we’re calling it. We’re thinking … Continue reading Unfolding plans 183 – Organisational fit
Unfolding plans 182 – Trust me and let go
I used to work with Lionel when I was at Spicers but it is some time since we have spoken. We had a little chat today through LinkedIn. He said I looked happy and as it was a recent photo then I suppose I did, or do. I replied that I was and it was … Continue reading Unfolding plans 182 – Trust me and let go
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 