How to Execute a favour
By admin at 19 March, 2008, 10:36 am
How to execute a favour (is it just me that this sounds weird to?) A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I dislike favours Almost certainly someone whom knows me well has read the article and thought b*llshit, you’ve done me favours! Its not true though, I don’t do favours anymore, I only [...]
Read More >>I Hate Favours
By admin at 21 February, 2008, 10:40 pm
Since I have been getting up on my high horse lately about quality executions, I felt compelled to rant a bit about favours. I hate favours. Favours drive me insane, because mostly they are not favours at all. So what do I mean? Consider this experience of mine… One of my IT services companies had [...]
Read More >>How I learnt to love bad suppliers
By brendan at 18 April, 2007, 4:54 am
I got a quote the other day from a computer guy, who emailed: “I will charge you $350 to upgrade your Drupal installation to the latest version.” This was probably the worst quotation I have ever received. (Drupal is an open source content management system that I use in one of my businesses.) So I [...]
Read More >>Problem Solving Pathways
By brendan at 11 April, 2007, 4:55 am
The other week I went to hear a speaker talk on leadership in times of crisis. I noticed during the question time that lots of people were asking really good questions, but I didn’t think of my good questions until the next day. Irritating but not unusual. On discussion with a friend, we came to [...]
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