This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. A couple of years ago Clayton Christensen, one of the foremost researchers into innovation in business, wrote a book titled How Will You...
I expected to see a new Microsoft start to reveal itself at the build conference last week and I wasn’t disappointed. Steve Ballmer has handed Satya Nadella a real gift, by allowing him to preside over the unveiling that Steve must have been orchestrating for years. The new Microsoft is...
Windows 8.1 Update tidied up some of the issues that we all have with the intrusive start experience that windows 8 imposed on us and made WinRT applications slightly more acceptable to Windows Desktop users. Windows 9 needs to do a lot to please me though. I’m looking for some...
In response to my post this morning Identify Bad Habits And Replace Them With Good Ones @NigelBarron tweeted some of the worst habits that we have at work. Conference calls, Email and PowerPoint. I’ve certainly worked to change some of these so I thought I would explore what I’ve done....
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. Summary: Replace unhealthy habits with healthy ones. Once established habits require a lot less willpower to sustain Good habits are central to living...
This post is part of a series that makes up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. Summary: take the smallest step you can imagine, then tomorrow take the next smallest step further The art of living well includes the...
This post introduces a series of posts that together make up my Simple Guide To Health which is part of a broader collection of posts on Living Well. I’ve read hundreds of books on health over the years and grappled with my own major health challenges for over a decade,...
I recently read an interesting blog post from Gartner summarising the results of a study that they undertook into why projects fail. The results aligned nicely with my own views: Our recent Gartner Research Circle survey asked clients about project failures. No respondent chose “technical skills” as the cause of...
This post expands on an earlier post that introduces the concept of Common Ground Collaboration is a key competency for today’s enterprises and yet despite the fact that the Internet is awash with a myriad of different collaboration solutions many teams still struggle to be effective and most projects continue...
This post is part of my What I Like series At first this post was going to be a list of my favourite books, but there are just too many, it’s like asking me to pick my favourite child. So instead I opted for the easier task of picking my...