Microsoft Project encourages you to jump straight to the Gantt chart, without bothering with post-it notes and critical paths first. Usually when people are doing this they make a mini-Gantt for each department, and then combine them all, like this: So they have several linear paths, all in parallel. They forget that actually some of […]
13 unexpected leadership ideas
Leadership is not all common sense. That’s why it’s worth training your managers, and going on a course yourself. Here are 13 ideas that you probably won’t have discovered yourself, except maybe the hard way….. Everything is management’s fault – either you know about it and it’s your fault for not fixing it, or you […]
If in doubt….
I was talking to a friend the other day and she said she had learned just one life lesson from her father, and that was “If in doubt don’t do it”. She felt that this has stood her in good stead throughout her life. But my motto is the opposite! “If in doubt, do it!” We […]
In Spain, do you get more time in bed?
My measure of jet lag and time zones is “Do I get more time in bed in the morning before I have to get up?”. But I’ve just realised that this is not a very good way to think about it, in fact it gets very confusing – and here’s why: Let’s take the example […]
Hybrid careers
You probably remember my six types of career, described here …. and to help you choose the best one for you I have even made a decision tree and a questionnaire, details here I’ve been wondering if there is a seventh one that I have missed, and people have been sending in suggestions, but they […]
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