Today I was reminded about the importance of environment. I went to work somewhere I very rarely go. I didn’t have the access codes, I wasn’t sure what card to tap on which door and I didn’t know which room to go to, or even which staircase got me there It made me...
Back in January, I blogged about the necessity of having a Plan B. If you go to my website and search Plan B, it’ll be there at the top of the list I talked about the importance of having a back up plan if your current work plan didn’t well, go to plan! I thought I’d...
We’re very good at keeping up appearances and keeping on keeping on. We don’t want to let our colleagues, our families or our friends down. We keep battling on until our batteries are at 4% and flashing red. Organisations are getting better at breaking down this...
I was recently asked what the most important piece of professional advice I’ve ever received had been. I didn’t blink and said there were two things, not one Low and SlowMany years ago, I had a #mentoring session with Alison Ward, a wise Chief Executive and recently...
I managed to dip in to this amazing well-being event today. I caught part of a workshop about Wing Chun martial art, which has links to qigong and Kung fu. The presenter said that it was essential for there to be contact so that parties could be guided by what they...
Today I joined a really interesting webinar by the Cognitive Institute, focussing on #civility in the workplace. I never cease to be amazed by the wealth of academic research that evidences the negative and frequently dangerous impact that even low level incivility...
DBA: Nia Thomas Nia Thomas, a Law graduate who works in strategy at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, has graduated from USW with a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) research degree. For her doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Gareth...
My tube journey home was a little bit stop-start. Apparently there was a technical problem around Mile End and trains were bumper to bumper (Do trains have bumpers?) I’m sure that Transport for London trains all of its drivers to keep passengers informed about what’s...
We’re very good at developing short-hand terms and acronyms for the words and phrases of our working worlds. We easily forget that this ostracises the outsider and the newcomer. The role of the #leader in an organisation is to look up and out (a manager; down and in)....
For the last few days, the bit coin mining rig in our spare room has been switched off. It has some technical glitch and my husband isn’t home to fix it right now. So, the house is once again quiet. I know very little about bitcoin mining, but I do know the rigs run...