A monumental event happened last week. It was life-changing and will affect so many people in the future. My grandson went to nursery for the first time. I say monumental because it’s one of those moments that parents always remember: the moment your child who you have been responsible for is handed over to someone… Read More Life changing
The CIPD has launched a new Learning and Development Network, and I’m supporting it as a ‘Champion’. I hate that word, btw – it implies I’ve beaten other people to earn the right to cll myself that. What I’m more interested in is getting into the actual detail of the work with other L&D people.… Read More Room for Unfinished Thinking
About five years ago someone connected with me on LinkedIn, started a sales pitch a couple of days later, was told no, acknowledged that, and then sent me another sales message five days later as though the previous conversation hadn’t happened. The first response had been perfectly reasonable: Five days later: “Hi Andrew – thanks… Read More Marketing still sucks
I use other people’s ideas all the time. I quote them, link to them and name the person who prompted the thought. If I have adapted a model, I say so. If something has shaped my thinking, I try to make that visible. Not because every idea needs a footnote, but because people should be… Read More Trust is currency
I like trawling through old posts. It reminds me of ideas I had, what I was saying at the time, whether I have been consistent and whether I am still sticking to my values. I was doing that the other day and found a post from six years ago about “hate reading”: forcing yourself to… Read More Completion not control