A Friday thought….’ A Smoking Chimp or a Roof over your head? It has been a tough week/year for many of those in the tech industry.Between layoffs across the globe, Twitter’s mid-life crisis,the NFT debunk, and the ongoing Cryptocrash. Many wannabe ‘Unicorns’ now resemble lame cart horses. Who would have thought a …
If you are in a position of influence, authority or leadership, ultimately you are a decision maker. Employees, teams, customers and providers all come to you for advice, guidance and critically to make key decisions that impact their respective circles. Your ability to make the right calls in such situations will determine your own …
A Friday thought…..’How good are you at taking customer feedback?’ What is your immediate gut response to somebody saying they don’t like your product or service levels? How active are you in learning what your customers/clients think about your product or service? How good are you at taking negative client feedback? If I am being …
A Wednesday thought……’Challenges are never ending’Brexit, Global Pandemic, Raw material shortages, Supply chain delays, Labour shortages, Energy price rises, Inflation, Crypto crashes….. I could go on…If you have been in business over the past few years, you have likely had to navigate some if not all of the above challenges. It feels never-ending. But in …
‘The Goal’ by Eliyahu M. Goldratt. An international bestseller and a bookshelf must-have for all self-respecting performance improvement professionals. To create an engrossing novel around the subject matter of factory optimisation is no mean task. Goldratt seamlessly achieves this. The central theme and takeaway from Goldratt’s seminal novel is the ‘Theory of constraints,’ or …
13st 10lb. For over a decade, this was my target weight whilst playing inter county football. First thing every morning, I would step on the scales to check in. It got to the stage that I could tell +/- 1 lb as to what my weight would be before I stepped up. Why is …
