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 »

Headscape is hiring

{ Posted on Feb 25 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : Uncategorized
At Headscape we need a new Techy. If you want to work with me, Paul, Ed, Dave, Craig, Mez and the rest of the team find out more at http://boagworld.com/news/headscape_are_hiring/ 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 »

BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre

{ Posted on Jan 27 2009 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : headscape, release
A new site for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has just been released. Designed and built by Headscape using clever CMS4 technology for those who are interested. [caption id="attachment_86" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre"][/caption]     http://www.bsbec.bbsrc.ac.uk/ Read More »

Friday Fun

{ Posted on Dec 05 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : Friday Fun
Guess what I've been doing this afternoon. 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 »

Like breeds like…

{ Posted on Nov 03 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : culture, leadership, management, team
If you have ever wondered why your team is what it is, then it is possible that you should look no further. Just like children often pick up traits, characteristics, and mannerisms of their parents, and "best friends" will find ...Read More »

Disaster in Dallas

{ Posted on Oct 31 2008 by Rob Borley }
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Categories : Random
Ok, so I'm massively off topic already but I stumbled upon this today having never seen it before. It is a video taken by Paul Boag of myself and Leigh having just got off a plane in Dallas; on our ...Read More »
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