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Continue reading →: England Expects. But are we measuring success in the right way?England haven’t won the World Cup for 60 years. Yet every tournament begins with the same expectation: this time we’ll win it. It got me thinking about how we measure success in organisations. Most people focus on outcome goals: ✔ Win the tournament ✔ Deliver the project ✔ Hit the…
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Continue reading →: World cup fallouts – what happens when trust leaves two days before project launch?The manager What happens when your project leader departs two days before launch? Your project manager is the glue that binds everything. The key tactician, the one who brings the team together. But what if they were secretly negotiating a new contract with another company while pretending to be focussed…
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Continue reading →: Keep going even when it’s tough
What is something you wish you could tell your 20-year-old self? I wrote a lot when I was younger, stories poems and essays. For some reason, I think work and life pressures as the by went by I just never seemed to find the time for it, never quite able.to…
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Continue reading →: Monday morning does not loom anymoreMonday morning does not loom anymore. There is no agenda, no planned meetings and no unexpected absence to cover. That’s because the work is done. The business has closed, the end of an era. Without realising it, daily life has been a series of tasks and actions, the daily commute…
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Continue reading →: A good mood song
What’s a song that always puts you in a good mood? Mr Blue Sky by ELO. Put this on first thing and try not to wake up in a good mood. I would say it’s almost impossible!!
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