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 […]
Mentoring To Be or Not To Be
Over the next few posts I will be looking at the whole area of mentoring – and by way of introduction: As I mention in this short video, my absence from this site has been mostly to do with busyness, busy initially immersing my self in further training and development (that’s the structural dynamics I […]
Rules are not for creatives, but frameworks are
Over the years I have worked with a number of creative teams in a variety of sectors ranging from R&D teams in Pharma, marketing departments in Finance and Hospitality, to Corporate Identity organisations, and then of course to startup entrepreneurs and founders. Reflecting on these experiences and the individuals I have worked with, I’ve observed […]
Skills for Start-Ups
Last week I was back in Doha and in the recording studio to record further material for the QF Radio Show: “Women Entrepreneurs Weekly”. One of the programmes featured as our main guest Dr George White, Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar. During our discussion we touched on the increasing awareness of the […]