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...
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...
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...
I had a great meeting yesterday with one of our strategic partners, it was a casual affair, just me and their chief architect and account exec. We were working through their development plans and I was doing a product/strategy review. One of the things that was worthy of note in...
I’m starting to get my thoughts together in preparation for a session on business development strategy. This is an area that’s fairly new to me, so I’m in research and idea generation mode. Today I’ve been trying to put myself in the mind of a customer, playing around with what...
I’m designing an organisation again this week, which will make about 7 in my career so far. It’s a fun job, but not as fun as designing products and service offerings. When I’ve designed products I’ve always felt that I have great creative freedom, specially when designing for software development. ...
I was discussing how we develop a strategy yesterday and the topic turned to the need for a structure or scaffold around which a strategy would be built. I’ve long believed that when you create a document you should carefully create the contents list first and as you jot down...
This post in in honour of the How I Work series on Lifehacker that I really love to read Location: Lytham St Annes on the west coast of the UK Current Gig: Mainly workplace wervices strategy and optimisation One word that best describes how you work: Differently Current mobile devices:...
I’ve seen my fair share of people burning out at work and I’ve experienced it myself several times. Most often it’s been a temporary experience for me, fixed by a relaxing weekend, but sometimes it’s more systematic. Many years ago I managed a couple of people who had burned out...