Pivotal ThinkingEarly in my career, I worked with an outspoken, verbose and loud senior Engineer from the Southern States of the USA. He had a machine gun delivery talking at 50 to the dozen and could be hard to follow. He always started every day with the same question. Are we going to cut bait, hook [...]
A conversation about change reminded me of a [relatively] painful lesson I learned a few years ago. I was a director [VP] in a medium-sized Professional Services Organisation and we needed to move to a new office. We scoured the area for suitable premises which met our criteria for: Location Public transport links Parking Style [...]
This isn’t the blog post I’d planned for today but Lord Sugar’s comments on the latest episode of the BBC Apprentice series can’t go unanswered. This Management Today blogpost provides the background and some commentary. In the process of firing Glenn, Lord Sugar commented that he’d never met an Engineer who was a good manager. [...]
It was November 1995. I had finished my MBA studies and was awaiting my results. I’d also had a very busy few years as a director [VP if you are in the USA] of a business which designed and built chemical and pharmaceutical plants . We’d just finished a couple of very large and challenging [...]
Thoughts on experiences as a change agent, project manager and MBA tutor.
