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Personal Technology – Economist / Register

A couple of interesting reports this week which explore different aspects of the Consumerisation of IT. The Register reports on the trend from an organisational IT perspective noting that the phenomenon is wider than the perception of sexy smartphones and iPads and that the trend is effectively unstoppable.  Organisations need to accept the trend and […]

Making Yourself Indispensable–HBR

This month’s Harvard Business Review focuses on Talent.  The article entitled Making Yourself Indispensable (requires registration or purchase to read) is interesting for sovereign professionals who must always look to enhancing their value proposition. The study is grounded in the strengths-based approach to managing your career (i.e. focus on building your strengths rather than trying […]

Making Yourself Indispensable–HBR

This month’s Harvard Business Review focuses on Talent.  The article entitled Making Yourself Indispensable (requires registration or purchase to read) is interesting for sovereign professionals who must always look to enhancing their value proposition. The study is grounded in the strengths-based approach to managing your career (i.e. focus on building your strengths rather than trying […]

Veracruz is Dying

I can’t hear the continuing dreadful news coming from Veracruz without recalling the refrain from Warren Zevon’s song about the city: “Veracruz is dying.” The song comes from his 1978 album, Excitable Boy.  There doesn’t seem to be any live footage on YouTube of Zevon performing the song but here’s co-writer and long-time Zevon collaborator […]

The Remains of the Book–Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr – author of The Shallows – has an interesting perspective on e-books, inspired in part by the launch of the new Kindle. I love physical books and I have a visceral sympathy for his description of edges and the book as a discrete entity in its own right.  There is something complete and […]

The Remains of the Book–Nicholas Carr

Nicholas Carr – author of The Shallows – has an interesting perspective on e-books, inspired in part by the launch of the new Kindle. I love physical books and I have a visceral sympathy for his description of edges and the book as a discrete entity in its own right.  There is something complete and […]

Interim Contracts reach Record High–The Grapevine

The Grapevine Magazine has a report on interesting findings from Axon Resourcing; that interim contracts are growing in the market-place. Axon’s co-founder Andy Edwards ascribes this to a “continued lack of confidence from business”.  However, I wonder if it is possible that we are seeing a move towards using expertise on demand in order to […]

Interim Contracts reach Record High–The Grapevine

The Grapevine Magazine has a report on interesting findings from Axon Resourcing; that interim contracts are growing in the market-place. Axon’s co-founder Andy Edwards ascribes this to a “continued lack of confidence from business”.  However, I wonder if it is possible that we are seeing a move towards using expertise on demand in order to […]

Interim Management and the Portfolio Career

Barrie Hopson, co-author (with Katie Ledger) of the excellent And What Do You Do? has posted some thoughts on interim management as a component of a portfolio career, over on his blog. To my mind, and in my experience, the two are perfect partners, especially when you take a long view of what makes a […]

Exploring Interim Management – IIM

Having seen some of the early work in progress, I am very excited that the Institute of Management has now launched its Exploring Interim Management course. Anyone with a freelance or portfolio lifestyle knows that starting out is a massive decision:  not only do you need to understand whether there is broad demand for your […]

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