This is the first in a series of management talking points. The name Leadership 7s has been influenced by the great game of rugby, which is was the emblematic game of my youth and a passion of the home country of my Mom and Dad, Wales.
In fact, much of what I learned about leadership in my formative years came from fundamentally social influences such as rugby union.
So, today I want to address seven talking points that deal with aspects of leadership, coaching and management.
Afilonius Rex
Cordoba, 12th May 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, the performance is about to start!
In 1998, as Programme, Product and Competence Centre manager at Hewlett-Packard, I signed the Agile Manifesto.
At that time, I had been using elements of the Agile-method mindset for the best part of sixteen years.
Previously, in 1995 I was trained and certified in Iterations, an iterative and agile-like methodology for building, maintaining and expanding data warehouses and data marts. (more…)
Martyn Richard Jones
Sunnyvale, CA – 7th May 2017
Listen up Team Leaders, Test Managers, Project Managers, Programme Managers, Portfolio Managers and PMOs.
You have just made the most perfect project plan in the entire history of project planning, and naturally you want to share your baby with the rest of the world.
But, you can’t.
Your perfectly designed, crafted and honed project plan is locked in a box that only you have access to.
Because none of your target audience has Microsoft Project. (more…)
“Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” — Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman and Philanthropist
Why is it the case that in order to become a successful manager in the UK that one must embrace parochial miserableness, abject meanness and byzantine nastiness?
More to the point, why has management in the UK become a politically barren, ethically bereft and dehumanising game of intense mediocrity?
Martyn Richard Jones
An advert made for a telecommunications concern in Europe urged people to ‘be more dog’.
It was rubbish and achieved nothing.
Because it said nothing.
Martyn Richard Jones
Peter Drucker once stated that “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all”.
That is one of the guiding principles in my professional role as strategist, leader and coach. (That’s why I like Oscar Puente, because he does the right things right).
I work in business and IT.