Dear: [insert employee id here]
To my kids I am Dad, to my wife, I am her husband and to my employer, I am Employee #14442. Sometime around 2006/2007 I was in a meeting with …
The solopreneur
I grew up in a family, a city and a time when ‘good’ looked like a ‘job for life’. I remember when I started at BAE SYSTEMS, which was 1 …
Luck = preparation x opportunity
Luck, why do some people seem to have it and others don’t, and what can we do about it? Luck plays an important part in our lives and to our …
4 ways to gain experience (that work)
There’s this meme out there which goes something like – “entry-level position, applicants must have 10 years experience”. It’s the chicken and egg scenario – you need a job to …
The original ‘big tech’
Let’s set the scene, it’s 1997, I’m 18 years old and I’ve just started work in a high-tech industry, building military aeroplanes (I’m in the photo above). Before this, I …
1:1 (pronounced ‘one-to-one’)
The 1:1 is a term given to a meeting between two people. Here we are talking about the 1:1 between a manager and a direct report – here is where …
The Learning Curve
We’ve all probably heard of the learning curve, perhaps we’ve even said something like “it had a steep learning curve but I got there in the end” when learning a …