An easier option
June 26, 2025 12:17 am 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
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
The common thread
June 25, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThe most common reason for projects not delivering against the ambition? No shared ambition. The most common reason for staff not doing the thing you want them to do? Not... Read more
Let’s start with that
June 24, 2025 12:17 am 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
For the miles
June 23, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsPeople do amazing things. Your people do amazing things. Sometimes because you ask them, most times because they’re amazing people in the first place. Ideally, they see what needs to... Read more
Always with them?
June 22, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsWork with enough people (more than one) for long enough (more than five minutes) and somebody will definitely be offended. They’ll interpret something that’s said in a way that leads... Read more