I don’t generally like to make ‘hot to’ videos, because everyone’s needs and circumstances are so different. However sometimes I make a “how I do” video, and this is one of those. I explain my philosophy about the use of containers in the polytunnel and greenhouse and show examples to...
In a stunning display of innovation and polish Microsoft demonstrated it’s new devices strategy yesterday. It’s already shown it’s almost brutal determination to establish itself as a device agnostic services business over the past year, delivering apps on competing platforms ahead of it’s own, time and time again and Azure...
On my personal blog I wrote an article yesterday about how I’ve built an anti-fragile lifestyle, to offset the unpredictability that my health conditions impose. In this post I thought I would explore how I’ve applied the same principles in business to create an organisation that’s also resilient to the...
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. All too often offices are designed based on an efficiency metric that works for the facilities management organisation, cost/person, needs to be...
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...
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...
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...
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. Since the focus is this blog is enabling productive people I thought it would be useful to share my management philosophy. A...