The weight-puller
August 12, 2024 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThe thing about feedback, good and, um, corrective, it lets them know we can tell the difference. Suppose you have two team members. One is great, she pulls her weight... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
Your thank-yous
August 11, 2024 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThere are good days. When the sun shines and the customers smile and say thank you, when the code sizzles and sales dazzle, when all is just fine with the... Read more
Debilitating hangovers
August 10, 2024 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsIn the beginning of things, when there’s no customers or money or staff or very much of anything, we turn our hand to everything. Even in new departments in large... Read more
Maybe it’s true
August 9, 2024 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThey say they’ve done one thing when they’ve actually done another. They’ll tell you the cheque is in the post when it isn’t, the report is looking good when they... Read more
And … Project X
August 8, 2024 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThe shortest route to energise a project is to name it. It’s the difference between … that initiative we’re trying to squeeze in to the space between every other project... Read more