Monthly Archive: June 2014

Easily Satisfied

For hundreds of thousands of years humans must have been satisfied with a life with few if any processions, full of movement, unprocessed, simple foods, companionship, love [and war].  In the last few hundred years and especially the last few decades all of a sudden we have transitioned to a...

Work Out Loud Week

Apparently this week (9-15 June) is Work Out Loud Week for this one week we are all encouraged to share our work.  Conveniently most of the blog posts this week involved some degree of sharing my week, which normally ends today.  Unfortunately I had a bit of a body crash...

What Do We Want Our Customers To Become?

As I stumble along on journey to understand business development strategy, I’ve been considering the fact that our customers (retained IT service managers) are also on a journey.  We are moving from a world where services are hosted for a particular customer to a world where they are hosted for...

My Daily Mantra

Less TV, more reading Less inside, more outside Less clutter, more simplicity Less rush, more slow Less time alone, more family Less consuming, more creating Less processed, more real food Less work, more impact Less multi, more single tasking Less driving, more cycling Less worry, more love and smiles Less...

Best Advice On Work Styles

I’m a big fan of “How I Work” articles and books, they are some of my favourite reads,  for example Inc Magazine has a recurring feature and Lifehacker has their This Is How I Work Series, I even have one of my own.  Reading these articles regularly enforces the point...

Work Is Not A Place

I read this tweet today, quoting outgoing Citrix CEO Mark Templeton : "Citrix started with a fundamental idea that work is not a place" Mark Templeton @Citrix CEO #CitrixMobilityDC — David Smith (@DavidSmith_IT) June 10, 2014 Having worked on collaboration services for decades and promoted virtual team working, mobile working...

Do The Hard Job

I’m working on designing a new organisation at the moment and the one thing that stands out is how hard it is to do the ‘right’ thing.  It’s so easy to get stuck into the problems of the moment, rather than confronting the real issues, much easier to make a...