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I often find that sometimes you have to put in a lot of work to not get much done and today was one of those days. I attended two useful functions (DSEi and an ESF Framework seminar (07-13)). I spent the best part of four hours getting to DSEi and a couple to and from Sandown so I had plenty of time for musings.
I wondered if I am too young to be successful in management. Too inexperienced to be respected. Too renegade to lead. I debated whether it was an efficient use of my time to be flowing between events by car, if I (or Teresa) had planned my journies well enough.
DSEi is a funny beast. I would imagine that billions of pounds of defence trade occurs during and directly after the show and as a consequence there are thousnads of top execs walking around, doing very business like activities, intermingled with very ordinary activities such as eating, ordering coffee, using the bathroom and checking out the cute promo girls/guys. It’s amazing how a high net worth individual can quickly become normalized by watching them carry out mundane tasks. It’s almost comical watching how technically minded individuals struggle when perched on a bench eating a soggy sandwich.
I realised that actually, the people I would rank in the top ten to respect are never seen doing that. The high fliers would have food brought to/for them. There seems an art form in getting people to do things for you and I need to know how to do that. The art of effecient and apreciated delegation should be my next port of study.
That ends this pointless rambling I’m afraid, more cohesive thoughts to follow…
O-M
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You may have to excuse this post if you will, I am testing out scribeFire, a neat little app that plugs into firefox and lets you jet out notes as and when you want to.
Presumably it will let me pull some of the rubbish off the net that I find and spew it into the […]
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Well folks, it’s been a while aint it?!
I guess it’s been long overdue that I get back online and start writing and updating with my progress. Why have I been absent so long? I have tried to justify this a thousand ways so far and none have been that honest. Want to know the real […]
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Was just hoping any readers could take a second out of their day to maybe do me a favour. I have setup a beta stage for a new revision for the Freetxt site, and I was hoping you could give it a good hammering and let me know how it stands up. The […]
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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. If you, like me have had a very tough year, with lots of changes and surprises, then we share something in common. If your year has been easy then I envy you. If your year has sucked then I feel for you. If you’ve had success then I […]
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Not tried this yet, but it seems reminiscent of the old GoogSpy (what happened to that. did it become something else in the end do i remember?)
Anyhow, I’ve been hearing good things about this so though I would put it out there and let you test for yourself.
Keyword stealing care of Keycompete
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Well since the dawning of my new ipod, I’ve started to wonder how I ever lived without podcasts. Sure I downloaded podcasts before, but never really in anger. I used to have Doppler installed on my laptop, pointlessly downloading Chris Moyles’s endless rants and Dot Net Rocks endless drivel (no offence to you […]
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Thanks for the Tag Burt!
Well I’ve never been a fan of viral emails, but bumping blog posts around is a bit of a giggle. I was tagged by Burt and thought I’d mull it over lunch. Here goes:
I once vomitted purple due to excess “Nasty” (Snakebight and Black but drunk in Loughborough) whilst at […]
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Sorry about this folks, but I have been working on the latest post, but for some reason my moods seem to be changing every 10 minutes and it’s become very hard to finish anything I’ve started. I am half way through a decent update post on where I’m at at the moment, but that […]
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A little while ago, when I moved into my new flat I made a decision not to have a TV. It wasn’t a big song or dance, I just didn’t move a TV into the flat. After constant (and frankly rude) harassing from the TV licensing agency, they started to accept that I […]