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Word Power

It’s interesting to me how one or two words can suddenly unlock a problem or tie disparate ideas and thoughts together. I currently do some teaching and supervision with post-graduate students. I come from a commercial rather than an academic background so my approach is…


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Asleep on deck?

A story that I picked up via Twitter had me scratching my head. It’s the story of the the Salz review that was requested by the Barclays board following their fine for Libor rigging. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22012261#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter What I find particularly perplexing is the comment from Barclays…


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What’s in a name?

Projects tend to be given names, as do project teams, in fact finding an appropriate name is one of the best ways to get a project group to start to think and operate like a team. The name matters, possibly more than we realise. Esteem…


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you pays your money…..

I’m just reading issue 67 of Start Your Business magazine. page 14: 48% of firms buying technology they are not certain they need. 74% believe that implementing technology has not freed-up sufficient staff time to raise their company’s innovation or scope to be raised. 48%…


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Creativity and team building

In what seems like a past life I would occassionaly be involved in “team building activities”. I did not enjoy these events. “now remember, there’s no I in team”. “I” know there isn’t, and yet, I surely there is. Do the ego and id, and…


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Problem solving

When I came across the concept of tame and wicked problems it was a real revelation. As soon as the concept had been articulated, I got it because it was so blindingly obvious. What I didn’t really get, was why it had taken so long…


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Seeing is believing

Later this year I will be teaching an international post graduate cohort about managing creative teams. This is challenging and has already led me to do a lot of research and pondering. Much more to come I’m sure. One of the avenues of pondering has…


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Hero Required

How is it that in the Unied Kingdom we can’t find anyone qualified and willing with a big smile on their face to run RBS for a £1.2million per year salary? Seriously, I can’t believe that there aren’t great people out there able and willing…


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Thanks to Stephen Fry

Wasting half an hour watching QI yesterday ended up giving me an insight that was probably unintended. For reasons that I don’t remember the topic of management consultants came up and Stephen Fry made the comment that more of them should be killed. I don’t…


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Cost and Value what to do about Art

I was a student in the UK,  I graduated in 1982. I trained as a fine art painter. I can still remember the conversations about money obsessed people who understood the cost of everything and the value of nothing. They were passionate, political, personally challenging…


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