December 2, 2016 12:39 pm
Published by Nick Shepheard
Finding and hiring good people is the hardest-greatest thing about management. The process that gets your from deciding to hire to filling the role can be frustrating and sometimes it’s... Read more
December 1, 2016 2:35 pm
Published by Nick Shepheard
There’s your A team. The operators you trust to get things done on time on budget and at the right level of quality. Your go-tos. They do a good job... Read more
November 30, 2016 8:29 pm
Published by Nick Shepheard
There’s a beautiful pleasure in getting computers to do things. To bend their obedient unthinking nature to take the heavy lifting on complex models, to boot the hello-world code into... Read more
November 29, 2016 4:55 pm
Published by Nick Shepheard
Are you sure? You’re setting up the new system/product/process/person/partner/supplier, and as usual, the newness is based on lots of due diligence, mostly positive feelings, a little bit of happy-talk and... Read more
November 28, 2016 8:18 pm
Published by Nick Shepheard
Some jobs (most jobs?) get done is snippets of time. Snuck in with meetings, there’s phone calls and interruptions and walking about, there’s slice-of-life encounters and email and nudging and... Read more