The internal musings of a disorganised mind.
I really hate feeling obligated to anyone. The feeling that something is owned to someone bearing down on you and making you feel regret for even making that promise. Yes, you agreed to it but didn't think you'd actually have to live up to … [Read more]
Engagement in the workplace continues to be a big thing in organisations. It's still a hip thing for human resources departments everywhere to be pushing. For those who don't know, employee engagement is where employees feel connected to the … [Read more]
Where I am, they call all the managers, leaders. But from where I sit, not all of them are leadership material at all. Not that I consider myself leadership material either, but compared to some of the others… Now many of the managers are good … [Read more]
I would often speak to members of my team asking them to do more of knowledge sharing with the team, and they would sometimes point to a moment in the past where they did that same thing. I would ask if that was something they planned, and it might … [Read more]
I stayed at home over the last week to try to force a start on my Master's thesis. I'd been delaying it for almost a year, with not even an idea of what I was going to do. I needed to get a good start to it. So once I had a project proposal in … [Read more]
Two weeks ago, I wrote about staying focused and what I had been doing to try to maintain progress on my key projects and tasks. Here I am two weeks later feeling like I'm running out of steam. I'm finding it hard to stay focused and ignore … [Read more]
It is generally thought that innovation is lead mainly by private enterprises. This is true to some extent, but only in the direction that they are incentivised. Many established businesses innovate in a way to evolve or grow an existing product … [Read more]
A long time ago, I learned that to achieve my goals that I should set SMART ones. For those who don't know, SMART is an acronym for: SpecificMeasurableAttainableRelevantTime-Bound Although at the time I was told that the R was for Realistic, … [Read more]