The Purpose Of Management

Being a project manager is a continuous exercise in Influence Without Authority (Allan R. Chohen, David L. Bradford). Everyday I need to get things done, and can only achieve through the cooperative, and hopefully enthusiastic efforts of others. I recently bought...

Unless …

Unless you do more and eat less today than you did yesterday, unless you do something different, unless you choose to take a risk and commit to a positive course of action, then your tomorrows will be very much like today and all your yesterdays. Your choice …...

Bio – for Cognitive Edge

My bio entered at Cognitive Edge: I started my ‘professional’ life as an Electrician (still registered), and I simply carried on studying, finding the proverbial intellectual grass greener and just out of reach the more I learnt. I became interested in Complexity...

Critics

I viewed Brené Brown’s two videos on TED (The Power of Vulnerability and Listening to Shame), yes I know, I’m a self-confessed TED junkie – I enjoy having my brain rewired by other people’s ideas. Talk about being vulnerable! See the videos for...

Quotes: IF

IF If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in...