I use a lot of analogies when I’m explaining things, painting pictures with words that everyone can understand, and providing common ground. With everyone in mind, I have been hard at work trying to demascunilise and generalise my analogies. It’s on this journey that I found a common analogy that is far more divisive than I realised, lets dig into sports analogies.
As always a Chat GPT version is at the bottom.
Continue readingI often check in with an old friend, and we have the most interesting discussions about business and life. One of the most recent conversations led us to the topic of failure and how it is very often culturally seen as a plate of shame with a side of pain.
As always the Chat GPT Version is at the bottom if you want a quick read – I’m verbose đ
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Schrodinger was hanging it out with Einstein over some tea. Long story short, there is a cat in a box with some poison and I think I found a link between this crazy tea party and how projects are run.
Continue readingBuilding on an article published by my good friend Sally Acton from Torque Solutions, âEmployee Experience: Wants + Empathy = Clarityâ. This is the second article in the series, the first can be found here. If you haven’t read the articles please do so, enjoy and get in touch if you have questions. @wernerSmit or @SallyActon
In article one we discussed the four convergence factors:
In the current climate of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic, in case someone is reading in the future, I’ve been reading a lot of articles on the observations and emotions that people are experiencing. People like you and me are struggling to balance all the different facets of our lives suddenly colliding in this new reality. People feel torn between elements that are normally very much removed from each-other by time and location. I will honestly admit that my life has become a smoothie maker of all of my responsibilities, and guilt doesn’t taste great.
Continue readingBuilding on an article published by my good friend Sally Acton from Torque Solutions, we had a chat and decided to collaborate and write a small series of articles, about 5 or so, building on her original post âEmployee Experience: Wants + Empathy = Clarityâ. If you haven’t read the article please do so, we reference it throughout the series and having a background will be helpful. What follows is the first of what hopefully will be many more collaborative writings to take place, enjoy and get in touch if you have questions. @wernerSmit or @SallyActon
The original article was easy to read and understand but deep in its implications. In these times of rapid change and fear, knowing what’s going on is a vital part of survival. Especially for your mental health and also for your contributions to the business you help build and the homes you are in. Whether you are an employee or employer, everyone is suffering from fear, uncertainty and doubt, or as many of us know it FUD, it makes the world go round.
In an effort to reduce âthe FUDâ the concept of sharing openly, for example âwhere the business isâ and asking for insights from those around us was the basic premise of the original article, it specifically focused on financial statements but this could be true for anything.
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Mind, on the rocks?! 