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15 ways to motivate your team
Some managers believe that each employee operates within a simple equation: Do their job properly and gain advancement, do it badly and suffer the consequences. This attitude displays a phenomenal lack...
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New rule for tech giants – Be good, but not too good
This week sees the ‘FairSearch’ group, comprising Microsoft, Oracle, Nokia and others, take issue with Google at the European Commission. Their complaint is a familiar one these days; that a competitor...
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Putting a value on virtual goods
I’m not going to yabber on about BitCoin, there’s been plenty of that already. It should be apparent to everyone that the value of that particular virtual currency is so volatile that it is unlikely to...
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Analysing the perfect project
There’s a lot to be said for considering what elements comprise the perfect outcome to your project. Painting a detailed picture of the destination you want to reach makes it much more likely that...
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Why “common sense evangelism”?
This is something dear to my heart, but it’s one of those phrases that can be taken two ways. Allow me to clarify. It is nothing to do with religion. I’m an atheist in any case. What the phrase means...
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Managing change
Humans are naturally resistant to change. Ironically, I believe that the reason for this resistance is because we are so adaptable. Sound like a contradiction? It works like this. What humans are good...
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Wi-Fi or 4G – the city vs suburb conundrum
City good, Suburb bad In the UK certainly, it is the case that the mobile operators focus their efforts most on providing blanket coverage in the cities and large population centres. It’s obvious; the...
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Shifting from apps to solutions
I heard someone once describe education as a “process of diminishing deception”. We can’t absorb the full complexity of a subject initially, so we are taught a version of the truth which we can...
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State the obvious – it matters
‘Assumption’ is the mother of all cock-ups. Whether it’s a contract dispute, a missing product feature, the wrong sort of swivel chair or a project that’s gone astray; when you trace the problem back...
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Death match: Agile vs Waterfall
It would be an understatement to describe Agile as being ‘all the rage’ at the moment. The rate of adoption of this development method within the industry is phenomenal. In so doing, it is supplanting...
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An earnest Englishman’s perspective
They say we ‘get the government we deserve’. Which means of course that we are privileged to live in a democracy, so ultimately it’s all our own fault when inexplicably, we manage to elect into office...
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15 ways to motivate your team
Some managers believe that each employee operates within a simple equation: Do their job properly and gain advancement, do it badly and suffer the consequences. This attitude displays a phenomenal lack...
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UK and the EU – Better the devil you know?
I’m a Brit so the debate in the UK over whether to remain in the EU is a very personal one for me. One thing strikes me about most of the arguments I hear expressed on both sides. They only consider...
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The myth of Trump’s popularity
Many of us are terrified at the support Donald Trump is getting. He is an extremely dangerous man, apparently driven by the kind of attitudes normally associated with psychotic dictators, not potential...
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Europe – the bad contract
The point of a contract is almost always misunderstood. If asked, most people would say that a contract is there to describe how the relationship between two or more entities should operate. Wrong. The...
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Should we heed the mob?
I swore I wouldn’t do this, but I’m afraid Donald Trump will feature again today, albeit not centre stage. The US election this year could not be stranger, could it? Commentators and wise heads are...
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With free speech, how do we shut someone up?
The single biggest problem with the ideal of free speech ideal, is that anyone can say anything. Voltaire’s beliefs were famously epitomised with the statement (not his); “I disapprove of what you say,...
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Short story: A window on time
I entered the following for a short story competition on the theme of ‘ageing’. I didn’t win, so I thought I’d post it here instead. I hope you enjoy it. A window on time The window where I sit does...
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Open Letter to Greece
Myself and Kay had the privilege of living near the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of Greece for four months earlier this year. I say privilege because Greece is an incredible place, rich...
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Why the UK and US cannot heal their divisions
2016 saw two cataclysmic political upheavals, the UK vote to leave the European Union and the US election of Donald Trump to be president. Both countries are desperately divided as a result of these...
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