There are a number of different ways to arrive at a mission statement. I’ve always found the easiest first step is to clarify your vision. Where is it that you plan to go? As well as being one of Covey’s seven habits, beginning with the end in mind is the basis for all good [...]

Kate of Blog to Discovery and Stephen of HD BizBlog started this one off.
Stephen and I exchanged emails and though this would be a great carnival topic to raise awareness and provoke some more discussion and debate, and I am 26 minutes late with my post!
Most companies have a vision and mission statement, which speaks [...]

A heavy e-mail week has lead to this post! It is finally time to write up the most common e-mail mistakes, and how not to make them, with special thanks to Chris Butler and his post on e-mail etiquette, via Twitter.
These are my own experiences, add your own to the comments.

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It is that time of year for me. It is coming up to my birthday, again, which always seems to trigger a time of introspection and reflection. Maybe it is kicked off by that irrational discomfort of a digit shifting in the ominous number that denotes my age these days.

I was wandering the streets of London this week, in a productive way of course, when I saw a familiar face. I nodded and he nodded back. “Are you who I think you are?” I said. “Well, that very much depends on who you think I am, doesn’t it?” he said.

[this post follows on from Part I]
When you make deadlines, make them realistic - don’t be the hopeless optimist or the dire pessimist. That isn’t as easy to do as it may sound. Research shows that people are very poor at judging how long a task will take, either best and worst case. Leave yourself [...]

This month has been a month of deadlines. ‘Deadlines’ is such a strange word - the idea that you can kill a mark drawn between two points is just a little odd, but there again that is the English language for you, a little odd.