Managing a project is not gag-a-minute, sunshine-dappled and rose-sprinkled bed of fun-filled meetings. It’s detailed, tedious, largely thankless, and it sticks someone’s head boldly over the parapet as they call-out... Read more
Travelling the road it isn’t possible to look out all the windows all of the time. Necessarily, your attention is focused forward, keeping your eyes on what’s ahead as you... Read more
The first step is accepting that you can’t do everything yourself. You kinda-sorta accept it, which is why you have a team around you, but the obvious facts are a... Read more
With one mini crisis after another it’s normal to spiral into a doom loop. The fear of yet more failure leads to under-commitment leads to lack of buy-in leads to... Read more
With no overt or agreed rules for how to run team dynamics, everything sloshes around until it finds its archetype. The over-promiser, the shirker, the stays-quieter, the volunteer, the schedule... Read more