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Yearly Archives: 2012

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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…