Just a couple of days after publishing my last post on community, I was diagnosed with Covid! Despite being double-jabbed and boosted, I caught the virus and it has not been ‘just a sniffle’ but rather more like the feeling of being trampled on by elephants. Yes I know there are have millions of posts, …
In recent weeks I have had some interesting discussions about ‘community’, many of these have in relation to working with others on potential projects. This has prompted me to ask myself a number of questions about the differences between working as a team and that team being part of larger, organisational community. Thinking aloud here, …
I have worked remotely most of my working life, starting in late 1980’s, yes, even back in the last century there was such a thing as ‘virtual teams’ (although I am sure we did not refer to ourselves as such). When I started working from home, I was an employee working for a consultancy with …
We often hear exasperated managers talk about the activity of managing team members as ‘herding cats’, and we smile and nod, sympathetic with the cat herder trying to align the interests and the attention of their team, are there any ways of making this task easier? All of us who lead or manage projects will …
At the height of the World Cup frenzy, it seemed appropriate to reflect on that most important human ability, that of collaborating to mutual benefit with colleagues, or like minded others, to work together as a team. Now I have to confess that I am not a great football fan, and the only time I …
