Organising for column one
January 23, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsThere are two kinds of things to be done, the things you Have To do and the things you Want To do. Which takes precedence? The column headed Have To.... Read more
Author Archives for Nick Shepheard
Travelling together
January 22, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsYou start with a desire for consensus. You get there by drawing pictures whenever the conversation turns interesting. Back of the napkin, big whiteboards, scraps of paper – at every... Read more
Don’t be that
January 21, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsIt drives you bananas when you’re dealing with a supplier that’s fractured into departments that don’t work as a cohesive whole? When their production department is on a different timeline... Read more
Direction-bending
January 20, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsHow often do the technologists or the developers or the accountants or the marketeers or the procurement people or the production managers or the lawyers or the dispatchers or the... Read more
The actual pieces
January 19, 2025 12:17 am Leave your thoughtsIt doesn’t matter how many time we’ve experienced the lesson, how well we tell ourselves we’ve learned, how many times we’ve been around the loop. The only way to get... Read more