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Monthnotes – April 2022

Bluebells

Looking back at last month’s notes, I can see I was aiming to get back to regularly exercising. I’m signed up to a 50 mile … Read More

Monthnotes – March 2022

Kingston sunset, Kent, March 2022

Having lived by the annual P&L account for so long now, the end of the financial year has always felt like a time to mentally … Read More

Monthnotes – February 2022

I started writing this month’s notes a couple of weeks back – I had a week off and had some spare time while travelling to … Read More

Monthnotes – January 2022

Shells on beach

How people at work interact within organisations is an endlessly fascinating puzzle for me. And this month’s been all about trying to solve that puzzle … Read More

Monthnotes – December 2021

December sunrise

I’ve been prevaricating about writing December’s monthnotes for a few days now. I’d put this down to not being sure what to write about and … Read More

Monthnotes – November 2021

Books on desk

I’m struggling to know where to start this month’s notes. It’s more than two years into my practice of reflecting at the end of each … Read More

What does a Chief of Staff actually do?

Over the past eight months I’ve been working on a major transformation project to bring together the eight companies that made up The Panoply group … Read More

Monthnotes – October 2021

Sunset at Es Vedra

It’s an early morning writing session for October’s monthnotes today. The combination of the end of UK summer time and returning from a sunny week … Read More

Monthnotes – September 2021

As my reminder for monthnotes popped up today, my instant reaction was “how was that a month?”.I’ve stuck to the discipline of reflecting at the … Read More

Monthnotes – August 2021

Today’s my first day back at work after a couple of weeks off, so August feels like it has been a month of two very … Read More