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Warm Body Syndrome – reprise

{ Posted on Dec 08 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, management, recruitment
Back in March, when I first had an attempt at launching this blog, I published an article called "Warm Body Syndrome". Despite nobody actually reading it at the time (except Sam Barnes; thanks Sam) it is my most popular post via google searches. As ...Read More »

Project managers: the great ambassadors of our time

{ Posted on Dec 01 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : communication, management, project management, team
A big, if not the biggest, part of my job as a web project manager is dealing with clients. This is actually the part of the job I enjoy the most and see the client as, very much, a part of the ...Read More »

Confidence is king

{ Posted on Nov 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, solutions, team
Confidence plays an important role in many areas of our lives. You will often here it said of footballer, for example, that they are a confidence player. I know from my own inability to play golf that I become marginally less rubbish if I have confidence in ...Read More »

Reduced to stereotypes

{ Posted on Nov 03 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : boagworld, headscape, management, project management, team
I'm often asked questions about the differences between working with designers and developers. Today an article I wrote for boagworld.com was published which takes a brief look at this question. Don’t Reduce Your Designers And Developers To Stereotypes Read More »

It’s OK to not know.

{ Posted on Oct 22 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, team
"I don't know" is actually a valid answer to a problem. "Let me think about that" is not an excuse to waste time. "I think I should discuss this problem with my peers" doesn't present you as incapable. No need to be infallible We ...Read More »

Warm body syndrome

{ Posted on Mar 16 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : leadership, management, recruitment, team
We've all been there. There is a hole in your team, a job that needs to be done. Maybe somebody has moved on leaving a vacancy or your activities have expanded to such an extent that new skills or more ...Read More »

Solutions not problems

{ Posted on Mar 09 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, project delivery, solutions, team
It's very easy to indentify when something is wrong. It doesn't matter if it's a small one person task or a large project being undertaken by a whole team of people, finding issues is normally...  no, I would say, always ...Read More »

The rant line

{ Posted on Feb 12 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, headscape, management, team
It's good to get things off your chest. Inevitably, during the course of a project things will annoy you. A customer will insist on something stupid, a college will make a hash of something which will add to your work ...Read More »

Under sell, over deliver

{ Posted on Nov 27 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : management, project delivery, sales, team
It's amazing what we will say to get people to do what we want. Whether it be to win a sale from a new client, convince our boss that our latest bright idea is worth everybody's time, or to just ...Read More »

Management: productively unproductive

{ Posted on Nov 11 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : leadership, management, team
Confidence plays a major part in leading a team. I'm not talking about a blind arrogance that assumes that you are always right but instead a confidence that leads you to feel that you do not have to constantly prove ...Read More »
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