Day 145 – 28 August 2014 It seems like an age since I’ve set foot in County Hall, Northumberland. I think it was in the middle of July. Both Neil and I have been away on holiday and we felt it best to leave it until we were both back. It is an odd feeling. … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 145
A year of work in progress – day 142
Day 142 – 22 August 2014 It must be the conference season or at least the season for planning for conferences as I’ve been inundated with offers to go here and go there. A couple of weeks ago I was asked to write a piece for the Executive Leaders Network on Digital Transformation - Leading … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 142
A year of work in progress – day 137
Day 137 – 5 August 2014 I can’t get over the drone we’ve bought. I should have mentioned it yesterday but it wasn’t until late in the afternoon that I got round to seeing it. Steve had asked me after our visit to Edinburgh if we could get one as research and development and I’d … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 137
A year of work in progress – day 130
Day 130 – 24 July 2014 Last night’s Dynamo board was interesting. As always it was a packed agenda and attendance was good. We covered four main topics: skills, membership, events and the formal company structure. Bob from Accenture has made huge progress in driving the skills work stream forward especially around the creation of … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 130
A year of work in progress – day 127
Day 127 – 21 July 2014 I’d spent the weekend helping my eldest daughter move into her new house. For two days I have been moving and erecting furniture, driving the van and laying paving flags and so I was glad to get back to work this morning for a rest though my aching limbs … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 127
A year of work in progress – day 119
Day 119 – 9 July 2014 Having not set foot in the ‘Room for Improvement’ for over a week I ended up spending the whole morning in there. I came in thinking we would be there all day but got kicked at lunchtime and made our way to another room. Apart from a half hour … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 119
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 20
Day 20 – 30 January 2014 A whole day in County Hall and so I decided to get the train in. I can only do this if I don’t have to be somewhere else and don’t have to be too early or late. It was a welcome break from the car park on the A1 … Continue reading A year of work in progress – day 20
Sock drawer
My sock drawer says a lot about me unfortunately. It also says a lot about the way life is. It is a microcosm of how order changes into chaos and how entropy always increases. It’s that second law of thermodynamics all over again which states that (forgive me for I paraphrase) ‘In any closed system … Continue reading Sock drawer
Trees have great structure
Apparently I talk in metaphors. It’s something I have learnt about myself recently. Whenever I want to get a point across I think about it in a way that is parallel to what I am saying, something that requires the listener to use their imagination and draws them into a picture that I am trying … Continue reading Trees have great structure
Thoughts from a Guerrilla Worker 