Business & Leadership news
Where do you work? Work from Office, home, anywhere…
The COVID-19 pandemic has been nothing short of heart breaking. I am so glad the world has come together to support each other in this global time of need. It has also given us an opportunity to evolve how we work, in my view for the better. The lockdowns imposed due...
Quantic Executive MBA – Early Thoughts
I have recently started the Quantic Executive MBA, and after about 2 months, I thought it might be useful to drop a note of my initial thoughts. I will then do an update later in the course. I have always been keen to undertake an MBA (Master of Business...
Big Data in Practice – Book Review
My recent book review of Big Data in Practice by Bernard Marr has been published in the APM's Project Journal (Autumn 2016, Issue 288, P81).
CPD is a waste of time!
I recently wrote a blog post for the Association for Project Management (APM) around the benefits of Continuous Professional Development (CPD). Read the blog post here: https://www.apm.org.uk/blog/cpd-is-a-waste-of-time/ The blog post is reproduced below: Why oh why...
The Project Leadership eBook is published
I was recently asked to write a short article on project leadership for inclusion in an eBook sponsored by AtTask. The book was coordinated and compiled by Studio B Productions and has now been published on Slideshare. The eBook is below (my article is on page 9)....
‘No sell-off’ for public forests
Despite previous intentions, including the selling of 15% of UK public forests, the government has announced that it will not sell off publicly owned forests in England. It says it will create a new public body that will hold in trust the nation's forests for future...
Are webinars useful for learning, or are they too frustrating?
I generally aim to attend at least one webinar a month (useully free ones, but sometimes paid for) – with the intention of increasing my knowledge on current subject matter or emerging topics, or as a knowledge refresh used in combination with recent experience and my...
Book Review: The Contract Scorecard by Sara Cullen
The Contract Scorecard by Sara Cullen It is not often that I can sum a book up in five words – this book makes business sense! How often have contracts for outsourced services been created, because they ‘had to be’, and then just left on the shelf to gather dust? How...
Is the use of social media reaching saturation point?
I have been wondering recently whether the use of social media, and the various tools available, is reaching saturation point? There are a wealth of social media platforms and tools now available, including email, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Xing, YouTube, Google+,...