James
Brainstorming. It doesn’t work but is it still useful?
The idea of Brainstorming was first articulated by the Ad man Alex Osborn in his 1948 bestseller “Your Creative Power”. Since then it’s gone on to be a widely used technique in many a consultant and manager’s tool kit. One of the central tenets of Brainstorming is to remove criticism and negative feedback allowing people to [...]
How do you get a promotion?
At some stage in your career you get to wondering what you have to do to get a promotion. Is it turning up to work before (and leaving after) your boss? Maybe it’s the results from that psychometric tool some very engaging and clever sales guy foisted onto the HR Director? Perhaps it’s a decision based [...]
To plan or not to plan… is that the question?
Most of us have been through a structured planning process at some stage in our lives. Perhaps it was in a corporate environment, maybe in planning our career or even around exercise or diet? If you are anything like me you may have researched different planning methodologies via the web or maybe by reading a book or two. [...]