Results for the category: Managing

React or respond?

March 19, 2015

Volunteer Consultants and managers often fall into reactive mode, dealing with what’s thrown at them and doing what they’re asked. “Oh, yeah, I can do that.” Nothing wrong with that; safe hands... READ MORE

The S-Drawer

March 17, 2015

Something for tomorrow A while back I was digitising the publishing process of a daily newspaper. Built around deadlines, our system was optimised to print everything in the next edition. But every... READ MORE

Whining for pleasure?

March 15, 2015

Rockets A 2013 Chinese study classified the emotions of more than 70 million tweets - angry messaged were shared faster and wider than any other emotion. Check out the front page of... READ MORE

Three choices

March 14, 2015

Choices If you see something going wrong, you have three choices. Ignore it - this is a pretty good reaction for an amazing number of problems. NASA have a policy of sweating the... READ MORE

What’s the point of networking events?

February 26, 2015

Phantom The networking nightmare: that guy who thrusts his business card into your hand and without taking breath is off and running into a rehearsed pitch. So why get out there? There are times... READ MORE