A handle cranker
November 28, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsEveryone loves a handle cranker. The kind of person who just gets on with it, who turns a mile-high pile of work-to-be-done into a neat stack of logs, sitting in... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
A saw toother
November 27, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsNobody likes a saw toother. The kind of person who is either running at a thousand miles an hour, all over a project, communicating at the speed of thought …... Read more
Bright spots
November 26, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe finest task in management is recognising the right person to join the team. A perfectly packaged bundle of talent and experience and work ethic, trained in the ways of... Read more
Pick up your crayons
November 25, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsIt’s surprising … how useful … is a crayon. At the crayon level, there’s no room for fine details. No getting bogged down with the beautiful complexity. No jargon, or... Read more
The other thing about guesses
November 24, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThe other thing about guesses … they don’t have to be guesses for long. You need them when you have no alternative, absolutely. They sit in for facts until you... Read more