Career

Over 250 blog posts from the last 8 years...

14 lessons in 14 months...

Receiving a bottle of champagne in the post in October marked 1 year since joining Reason. As I opened it on Jan 1st 2023 to mark the end...

From soggy armpits to success!

Soggy armpits. That what I felt as I stood in a meeting room this week half way through a 2 hour meeting I was running with 30 people....

The same is good enough…

Lots of people talk about new year, new me. Decide that this year they’re going to start X, Y or Z. Maybe even they aspire to change...

10 reasons you don’t need to read a CV when hiring…

I slowly shuffled out of the grey, sterile, corporate meeting room at the end of an exhausting 13 hour day, scratching my head and...

Q. What’s the most important part of any team? A. The human element…

At work you’re part of a team. You (normally) have colleagues with shared goals to work towards. I would also hope that you’re...

You’re not doing enough…

Sure, you’re doing stuff at work each day. Probably lots of stuff. Maybe even lots of really important stuff…but my challenge to you is...

Being a scrum master is a doddle (as long as you master this one thing)…

So what exactly does a scrum master do? I hear this question a lot. And the answer is easy: As little as possible. However, being a scrum...

10 reasons why writing a post on LinkedIn in 2017 is a no brainer

As another January hits the calendar it’s easy to make lots of promises for the year ahead. Analogies of new year, new start appear. The...