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Spin to win leadership!
Spin to win! At the new gas station in our neighbourhood, everytime you fill petrol, you get a chance to spin a wheel on the app. Depending on your luck (or maybe the algorithm) you win / don’t. Our son loved it. He unlocked a few dollars for me and couldn’t wait for me to ...
Taking people on a journey……..Or not!
Taking people on a journey……..Or not! You are all excited about your upcoming project. Or maybe this new product that you are now, the product owner of. You truly believe that this will make a big difference to your customers. And you have your first meeting with your key stakeholders. You had a great presentation ...
Implementing technology is easy, using Excel – EASIER!
Finding Jack / Jill! Your ERP / HRIS project is inching towards Go Live. And a bazooka arrives. It’s called Jack’s / Jill’s spreadsheet Used extensively to drive process or reporting today. Jack or Jill (noble souls) originally started it to fill a small limitation / gap with the existing process / system. Over time, ...
Before you fuel the #greatresignation!
The #greatresignation (attribution to whoever came up with this😎) has hit your project. A bunch of your folk are moving on, leaving the remaining on tenterhooks. Your project intensity, timelines and budget haven’t quite been adjusted to reflect this. You are scrambling to get the replacement job descriptions out in the market. You need to ...
On long haul flights, pilots, projects and people!
On long haul flights, pilots, projects and people! Long haul flights have multiple pilots in rotation to ensure the flight is navigated safely without tiring them out. Now imagine if you had a long haul flight with just 1 or 2 pilots? You are either chancing your luck or oblivious to a disaster waiting to ...
Illusion of a decision with a mountain to move!
Illusion of a decision made but a mountain to move! I recently bought an item with a sticker saying they will donate $1 from every item to a charity. Very worthy cause.Few days on – A closer look at the sticker and it says – Text the last 4 digits of the item barcode to ...
The Roundabout rider in decision making
The roundabout rider of decision making! Imagine you enter a roundabout, keep driving inside it & don’t exit? Annoy everyone else who patiently waits for you. Crazy right? It’s the same when a roundabout rider surfaces in decision making. They ask questions, they provide advice, they sympathise and yet, there is no decision; blocking action ...
SNOOZE or STOP
Stop the snooze! In fact, it should be removed from our phones. SNOOZE is default. It’s easy. Right in the center of the screen. STOP takes some effort. Click STOP. You can sleep or wake up. No hanging in between. SNOOZE leaves you floating. Annoying you while you try to sleep and leaves you feeling ...
Mondays!
It’s Monday again (or will soon be) and a lot of us wake up to the dreaded prospect of turning up. The thing you believed, was sorted on Friday, is about to flare up. The plan you agreed with your team for this week is about to unravel. People will call in sick or you are feeling ...
On Sponsorship – strategy, execution and accountability
You’ve come up with some great strategies to help your organisation in it’s next phase of growth. You’ve kicked off projects to help realise those strategies. You’ve appointed some of the most reputed project managers to help execute those projects. You’ve championed allocation of funds to those projects. Yet you feel like you are sitting ...