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Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: the launch!

December 5, 2011

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is available from today! Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Ten Strategies to Stop Feeling Like a Fraud at Work is my new ebook aimed at anyone who has ever felt out of place at work. Imposter Syndrome is really common. As a result of [...]

There’s no such thing as a bad decision

November 3, 2011

Today is International Project Management Day. Project management is a series of small (and sometimes big) decisions so today I wanted to talk about that. At work recently I had cause to question one of my decisions. I had made a decision that affected other people (as most decisions do). I communicated the decision, replanned [...]

Five things I want to do before I’m 35 (revisited)

October 12, 2011

Back in 2009 I wrote a post about career and personal goals, and what I wanted to achieve before I was 35. I made a list of 5 things. They were: See polar bears in the natural habitat Knit myself a jumper that I’ll actually wear Read Herodotus’ The Histories (which has sat unopened on [...]

Scope creep, shopping-style!

June 30, 2010

I try really hard not to let scope creep impose upon my projects, so why is it so difficult to stop it in the rest of my life? Despite my efforts to keep my language skills up since moving back to the UK from Paris, my French is rusty to the point where if it [...]

News roundup

September 5, 2009

I was interviewed recently by Pawel Brodzinski, who writes the great Software Project Management blog. The interview was around project management approaches and forms part of a series he is running. He actually asked really hard questions! Read the interview here. Wellingtone (the people who do the salary surveys but occasionally send out pointless reports) [...]

Project management tips – from me!

February 4, 2009

Want to know the thing I found hardest when I first started managing projects? Or what to read to stay informed? Read the interview with me at Project Management Bistro for the answers!

Status report: New Year’s resolutions

February 1, 2009

Here’s an update on my New Year’s resolutions: Task: abstain from alcohol while in the UK during January RAG* Status: Green Progress report: Total alcohol consumed during the calendar month of January: 1.5 glasses of wine, 1 white wine spritzer, 1 Frangelico. Of this, the spritzer was consumed in the UK. Of the two overseas [...]

Runner bean mystery revealed!

June 4, 2008

I got impatient about why there was nothing coming up in my pot of runner beans. And I needed the flower pot for something else, so I figured if it wasn’t going to sprout then I’d reuse the soil and the pot for a begonia instead. I tipped it all out to fish out the [...]

The Garden Project

May 12, 2008

I have a garden again. Last summer I was between homes. The summer before that I managed to get a few runner beans out of a pot in the courtyard of my Paris flat. But I’m pretty sure that the constant smoking from my neighbors stunted the plant’s growth. And maybe the fact that I [...]

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