Recently my team and I discovered that a piece of work we had hoped to take a shortcut on would not work the way we had hoped. The shortcut we had taken meant that we were dealing with incomplete data. This wouldn’t have been a problem, except that we were right up against the deadline and Read More
Get Right Inside Your Comfort Zone
It’s been over three weeks since my last post and I would like to say that I’ve been making big plans and I have a whole line up ready to go… but that would be false. Sometimes in life we need to take a step back from what we’re doing, look at what we’ve accomplished and Read More
You Learn Something New Every Day
I’ve titled this post with that common saying because while it is overused, it still captures something important about life. We are continually learning, without even trying much of the time, but a lot of people feel like the effortful learning that we do in school, college and university should end there. However, many studies have Read More
The Second Step In Becoming More Productive
In my post about the one productivity hack that works for everyone, I said that the first thing you have to do is very easy, despite what all the productivity articles are telling us every day. Just take one small step. But then the inevitable question comes along, I’ve started, now what? What is the next Read More
Books For Personal Growth: Smartcuts
I’ve just finished reading this book, Smartcuts: The Breakthrough Power of Lateral Thinking, and wanted to write about some of the ideas in the book. Before I begin, I’ll start with a little bit about how I ended up reading this book. I read a lot of books on my Kindle and whilst I prefer not Read More