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, […]
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. Not putting a […]
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 […]
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.
The technology used in businesses is changing rapidly. The technologies we use in the office today would have been the stuff of science fiction just a few decades ago. New technologies are arriving faster than most businesses can adapt and adopt. Within this change is the potential for both increasing, and decreasing, productivity. What is […]
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