Pinning them
December 31, 2019 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsAt the end of things, whether it’s a project a partnership or a calendar year, it’s a time to reflect and a time to look ahead. Looking in the mirror,... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
Anything but this
December 30, 2019 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are times when you’d rather be anywhere else but here doing anything else but this. But this is the place and that is the work. It doesn’t matter that... Read more
Not talking
December 29, 2019 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe most common reason for projects not delivering against the ambition? Nobody agreed the ambition. The most common reason for staff not doing the thing you want them to do?... Read more
Every meeting
December 28, 2019 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsEvery meeting has an objective. Maybe it’s to update, to build consensus, to clarify next steps, to examine and lay bare, to understand, to introduce, to have another go-around, to... Read more
About when
December 27, 2019 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are always practicalities in the way. There are a thousand reasons to put things off, to continue working around the problem, to kick that can a little further down... Read more