November 4, 2024
How I survived my angriest public meeting
This terrifying baptism of fire taught me three things that have never left me
March 8, 2023
Diving in to a collaboration mystery
How can organisations best avoid poor meetings and boring talkfests while finding ways to do productive work together?
August 11, 2022
The Diamond Ring of Decision-making
Let’s reframe our approach from groaning to growing, from solving to learning, from convergence on the answer, to…
August 10, 2022
From Groaning to Growing With Your Collaborators
When collaborating on difficult problems, that groaning you hear is the sound of old ideas fading and new ideas…
August 4, 2022
Being comfortable with discomfort
While the group’s inherent desire was to help “fix” the situation, there was a growing recognition that allowing people…
July 14, 2022
Resetting your collaboration
The relationship element is harder to see and trickier to deal with, but much more likely to allow smooth sailing when…
July 7, 2022
Sure signs it is time to reset your collaboration
How would you recognise that it’s time to reset your collaboration? Take a look at these signs.
June 15, 2022
What migraines taught me about overmanaging
I woke with a migraine, and dragged myself to the meeting feeling pretty terrible, so just had to sit there and let it…
June 7, 2022
How to Disappear Completely
Rather than seeking more control to wrangle your stakeholders, it often pays to disappear, if not completely, then just…
May 24, 2022
Overcoming the inertia- just try stuff
Perhaps just ‘trying stuff’ (and living with a degree of uncertainty) can overcome that frustrating feeling that we…
May 3, 2022
Experimenting with Siri
Siri and I got where we wanted to go through a process of testing and learning the way forward together.