I heard a term from Dr David Love at the Autumn Forum that I rather liked. Faux work. It’s used to describe people using AI to correspond with each other, producing emails, reports and responses that give the appearance of work without necessarily achieving very much. Then I read a piece last week by Alf… Read More Meat Proxy, Faux Work
Meg Peppin tagged me in a post a couple of weeks ago asking if I was still blogging. She’d noticed that a few people whose writing she liked seemed to have vanished from LinkedIn and wondered where we’d all gone. I haven’t gone anywhere. I publish on my website every day and on LinkedIn on… Read More Where did everyone go?
Put strangers in a room and they’ll find ways to work together. They’ll also spot someone who does the same job and steer well clear. If you’re bringing people together, don’t ever leave useful conversations to chance. Get the people doing similar work talking to each other.
Someone sent me an article this week. I’m not going to say who wrote it because it doesn’t really matter; you’ve read it before. You’ve probably read it this week. It’s the one that opens in capital letters telling you not to spend your money on training but to invest it in business results instead,… Read More Training? No. Training!
Every tender we’ve submitted in the last few months has been delayed. And not just those: I get updates about every tender I enquire about, and they’re ALL running late. The explanation we’re given is nearly always the same: buyers received far more submissions than they expected and didn’t have the capacity to evaluate them… Read More Everything’s late