Time to think
October 24, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsAt the bottom of it all, you get paid for two things: to think and to manage. Thing is, everything else takes up so much time. All the meetings and... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
The very act
October 23, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsYou have to work out what to do about that thing. “I don’t know what I think. I don’t have enough information or experience to have a clear view. It’s... Read more
Come for a conversation
October 22, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsWhatever they tell you in selling school, there’s no trick. At one end … there’s the McDonalds technique, full on features and options – Do you want fries with that?... Read more
We could do it
October 21, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsWe could do it. It would mean a little bit of this and a little bit of that. We’d get squeezed over there and we’d obviously have to work out... Read more
How to earn respect
October 20, 2017 11:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are some people around you who always earn respect. Not by their formal authority or because someone says something, not because they wield a big stick or because the... Read more