It was only the first day of my gym training, but honestly I can already say that I’ve never worked so hard, that’s the difference that a personal trainer makes. The first session was free and was more of an assessment than a training session, but the assessment was hard,...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. Sometime you need to do whatever it takes; to go to extremes; to work seven days a week; work through the night;...
Over the last few months I’ve been giving some thought to what we mean when we talk about differentiation at work and it’s a confusing answer. Sometimes we mean how we differentiate ourselves on a particular deal, sometime what we currently do better than our competitors and very occasionally we...
I’m back in St Annes today and it feels great, it’s very true that one of the best things about travelling is coming home, all those little comforts, knowing where everything is, seeing friends and family, time to chill out. What’s not so great though is the accumulation of all...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. I’ve been thinking a lot about frameworks for motivation recently, starting with Maslow’s unsatisfactory Hierarchy of Needs; then Dan Pinks, Autonomy, Purpose...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. Note: I have an update to this post that’s worth reading When I started managing people one of the first theories that...
We were travelling home from Nottingham today, but that didn’t stop us packing a lot in. I was up bright and early and down in breakfast by 6:30 and then on to Caffe Nero by 7. I was back with Debbie and heading to Newark by 10. My Mum lives...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. I work in end-user computing and we are pretty focused on improving personal productivity, mobile working and collaboration, but the irony is...
This post was first published on my business blog, which I’m closing down now that I’ve retired, so I’m archiving some of the better posts to this blog. I’ve spent most of my working life at the intersection between cost and value, in that uneasy place where it’s never to...
Today is Anna’s first full day of operation of her new, web based, bespoke lingerie shop, shop.redacornfashion.com. She’s worked incredibly hard to build her business on Instagram and now she’s expanded to a professional web presence, which will give her much better insights into her customers browsing and buying habits...