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2020 Business Resolutions

What would I recommend thinking about as we enter a new decade? Here are some thoughts: – put your prices up, you’ll lose fewer customers than you think, and the ones you lose will be the ones that are high maintenance and therefore the least profitable or maybe even loss-making anyway – get rid of […]

Management Vegetables – book on kindle, or paper – or a conference talk!

Is this you? Here are just some of the vegetables / fruits that you NEED to know about! Buy the book on kindle Buy the book on paper Get Chris to do a talk featuring the vegetables of your choice

Christmas present ideas for 2019

What to give other people? What to ask for yourself? Here we go……. Fun memory sticks like this one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00LUJJ4CU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And this one…. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Superideal-Novelty-Penguin-Flash-Memory/dp/B01EJ1FZNM/ref=pd_sim_107_2/259-3581303-0152832?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01EJ1FZNM&pd_rd_r=3a7c3eda-fa6d-48b8-9d51-fb15de35145d&pd_rd_w=TBcae&pd_rd_wg=sn1bK&pf_rd_p=32ad4a08-4896-4172-a2ea-821c9be00310&pf_rd_r=B5NBBH94ANG2B639Z1A3&psc=1&refRID=B5NBBH94ANG2B639Z1A3 Or this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01924223W/ref=dp_cerb_2 .. then, how about……. My happiness cards https://www.chriscroft.co.uk/product/happiness-pack-of-cards/ 52 practical things you can do, so that’s one a week for a year, or just select one at random […]

Agile principles

I’ve just been reading this article and I agree with pretty much all of it. Just two things to add: The author (unknown, 2016, Gil Broza I think) writes: For instance, in millions of IT projects the important things are usually these: Make early commitments (= promise what will be done by when and for […]

pecha kucha

I really like the idea of these! You get 20 slides and each one is 20 seconds (you set powerpoint to move on automatically) so it’s really disciplined And presentations by other people can’t be boring – you know they won’t have loads of slides, and you know they can’t get stuck for ages on […]