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New beginnings
When I was a kid, one thing I used to look forward to was the start of the new school year. Not because I wanted to go back or anything (I wasn’t a gifted student – too easily distracted) but because I looked forward to getting a new school bag, and a new set of…
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Teamwork – a niche sports analogy featuring Reading FC
Like lots of people who I move in similar circles too (in an online sense), I’ve been watching The Last Dance on Netflix. If you have missed it so far, it focusses on Michael Jordan’s last season with the Chicago Bulls – but uses this as a scaffold to look back at his career. If…
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I just wanted to give you the table
I once worked for a major UK charity. At the time Google was offering free partnering sessions to help charities with marketing. Google arranged for 2 members of the public to come to a workshop to discuss their experiences with the charity. One quote (which I will have to paraphrase) really stood out to me.…
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What don’t you do?
“What do you do?” Let me take you inside my head for a bit. I promise I’ll let you out again. “What do you do?” I’ve just met this person. Maybe they’re a friend of my girlfriends. Usually they’re the partner of my girlfriend’s friend and I’m being introduced in a “hey, you are both…
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5 thoughts on how I got here for 2018
Someone recently asked for 5 concepts that have made me successful. It made me think, which is always a nice thing. Success is relative, of course. So, here they are – I’m reusing them as thoughts on how I got here for 2018 – what are yours?