Category: leadership
11 posts
FFS I am not a resource
February 10, 2019This is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at FFS Conf Down Under in February 2019. --- This is about language; and when you talk about language, it's compulsory...
Continue Reading →A one day offsite for leadership teams
March 24, 2016This week I held an offsite for my engineering leadership team. My two aims were to do some formation activities as we have a few new faces in the team and to...
Continue Reading →Measuring happiness
February 4, 2016As sometimes happens, I wanted to answer a question on Twitter but couldn't do it justice in 140 characters. The question was this: > @andykelk @auxesis...
Continue Reading →Building a learning culture on a budget
December 9, 2015This is a paraphrasing of a talk given at the 2015 CTO Summits in Melbourne and Sydney. --- Think about the last day you spent at work. What did you learn? We...
Continue Reading →Get rid of all the managers
October 20, 2015This is a paraphrasing of my talk from Ignite Sydney. The five minute format means this is necessarily lacking in detail! --- Are you happy at work?...
Continue Reading →Book Review: Reinventing Organizations
August 31, 2015I've recently finished reading "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. I was inspired to read it after attending a talk by Michael Spayd and Michael...
Continue Reading →Management and leadership resources : the big list
August 6, 2015I often find myself talking to experienced and new managers about things I've read or heard. Of course I can never remember everything so this post aims to...
Continue Reading →Revitalising the weekly management meeting
July 2, 2015Monday, 9am: the first participants drift into the room clasping their smart devices and coffees. 9:05am: The meeting gets going with the weekly roundtable...
Continue Reading →When hiring - skills first or culture first?
February 11, 2015This week, Greythorn released the results of their survey on IT hiring in Australia. They concluded that "CIOs are increasingly hiring new IT staff based in...
Continue Reading →All you need is love?
December 4, 2014Yesterday I was fortunate enough to spend a day in the company of many inspiring engineering leaders at the Melbourne leg of the CTO Summit Series. One of the...
Continue Reading →Unaccustomed as I am...
November 21, 2014A couple of things this week have got me thinking about public speaking. Firstly, I have been confirmed as one of the speakers for the Melbourne CTO Summit in...
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