Behind the questions
October 17, 2015 6:28 pm Leave your thoughtsWhen they ask questions they don’t always want to know the answers. Not those answers anyway. Ok, when a printer asks for a Pantone number, she’s talking from a position... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
Efficiency and effectiveness
October 16, 2015 8:19 am Leave your thoughtsLike love and marriage, and horse and carriage, it sometimes feels like efficiency and effectiveness go together. It’s a nice idea. Efficiency drives effectiveness drives efficiency drives … And it’s... Read more
Behind the curtain
October 15, 2015 8:40 am Leave your thoughtsAt their most basic, all businesses are the same. Buy or make something, sell it for more than it costs. Repeat. There are at least as many ways to pull... Read more
Lost in the cracks
October 14, 2015 8:17 am Leave your thoughtsIn any organisation larger than one person, there are cracks. Those little gaps where communications get lost: in delivery, implication, interpretation, impact. You say one thing, they hear another. Scale... Read more
Wall of death
October 13, 2015 2:17 pm Leave your thoughtsThere are lots of acquirable skills. With enough time, effort and will, most of us could ride the Wall of Death. Thing is, we don’t have to. There are people... Read more