Archive for December, 2009

Autopsy 2

Posted in 01 - Leadership & Management on December 3rd, 2009 by Paul McArdle22 Comments

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For those who have been regular readers of the blog, you will realise, by now, that I am a keen advocate of life-long-learning, and improvement (both for individuals within our company, and for the company as a whole).

Given we are fast approaching our 10th birthday, and that we have disappointed ourselves in terms of a number of key initiatives, it has been timely to spend some focused time on introspection.

1)  What was Autopsy 1?

Back on Tuesday 28th July 2009 we held Autopsy 1, which was a one-day planning session in our offices in Milton.

During the day we dissected the company (as best we were able in the single day) and drew out of this a number of changes that were required.

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Communicating Clearly – how we/I can improve

Posted in Book Review on December 1st, 2009 by Paul McArdle1 Comment

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Stephen Hurn read this book last week and suggested all of us should read it.

It really is a 1-hour read, and I have made this post in an effort to ensure we all gain some value from the wisdom contained in the book.

1)  Binary Review

The Book

What we thought

CommunicatingClearly

“Communicating Clearly”

by Harvard Business Press
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Uncommon “common sense”

Full Disclosure – yes, that’s a tracked link to Amazon shown above. We buy quite a large number of books on a wide range of topics, all relevant to our business in some way.  If you did happen to purchase the book from Amazon, they’d throw a few shekels our way, which would help us to buy (and hence publish reviews of) even more books.  Hence, Karma would return the benefits to you…

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