We all have those days, where you just have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. You have to follow up with people around getting certain things done, but you just don’t have the time right now, so you quickly pop a mail or a WhatsApp or a Skype message to...
Originally this phrase was invented by Ernest Hemingway as a writing technique where he would use this technique when writing short stories. Basically, it meant that he focussed on the surface parts of a story and not the underlying meaning or sub-stories. Like...
A while back I blogged about Micromanagement and Project Scheduling and I want to carry on with that theme with a method that could be used when teams are under pressure. When we are under pressure to deliver, we tend to make silly mistakes like micromanaging our...
I hate to generalise but most of the time when the going gets tough on a project, either management or in severe cases the project manager starts to micromanage the team in order to “track” delivery better. Most of the time the cause of this is not because it is a...
What is value? Some might say it’s all monetary, while others would say it’s what they can get out of something. But let’s talk about value when it comes to your clients’ needs. It is what you deliver and what they get from you as the supplier. So what should you be...
Studies have shown that most successful people read books for self-improvement rather than for entertainment purposes. Basically, the study concluded that some of the more successful people in the world all shared reading as a past time. Looking at the statistics on...
