From music to blog posts, I fear we may get to a point when it has all been done before. I reflect on how our all-knowing Internet both informs us of our irrelevance and forever captures our significance.
Year two of blogging and thirty-nine of living. Through floods and fast growth, I am finding it is all a matter of perspective.
Synergy happens when an end result is greater than the sum of each contributing part. If you are looking for fulfilment in your day job, you will find synergy to be critical in three areas: project teams, work / life balance, and alignment of your personal values with your commercial efforts. If you are looking to make a difference in your organisation, it is my hope that you may also find synergy with this blog post.
What is the goal of our day job efforts? Commercial leaders focus on profits, but to what end? These are my Easter reflEGGtions.
What factors result in a “high performing team”? Is there some formula we can all follow, or does it happen by chance? For both study and work, I set out to find some answers…
I was a ten years old when I first saw the tire swing diagram hanging on the wall of the family printed circuit board manufacturing company. I wondered in my naivety how each party could get communication so wrong. Decades later, I have answered my question countless times through my own contribution to mismatched swings.
My experiences have also developed my fundamental belief in Covey’s fifth habit, articulated within the digital agency as: “no one wants a website”.
A single tweet commencing with “Loving Lord” started me down a path questioning why we tweet, why we pray, and whether prayer has any place in Twitter.
Do you feel your staff spend excessive work time on social media and non-work related sites? Research tells us that rather than stopping the behaviour (a form of social loafing), you are better off engaging them in a shared vision to give them something to work towards.
I attended a leadership session a while back where an experienced leader in a non-profit made the statement that a team does not typically last more than five years. This has weighed heavily on me as I enter my fourth year as a manager and leader in my company. I recently relinquished my role of over three years as Production Manager as I grow with the company, and the prediction haunts me like a ticking self-termination time bomb. While we should be cautious based on market examples, research thankfully shows my fears of an early grave are unfounded.
I was recently asked the question about my profile picture: “why a cartoon?” My response takes me on a journey through options not chosen and an analysis of the choices of others.
