By Elisabeth Goodman, 29th October 2019 The Autumn issue of Project, the APM’s (Association for Project Management) quarterly publication, carries a couple of articles on the very important theme of well-being. Working on life science projects can be a high stress activity The APM commissioned some research by the University of Manchester, led by Dr …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th October 2019 The area where RiverRhee works, in Cambridgeshire UK, is a real magnet for talent in the Life Science and IT sectors in particular. Many of the companies are growing rapidly and there is also fierce competition between the companies. We all know that the recruitment process can be time-consuming …
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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th October 2019 According to W. Bennis, “Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.” Clarity of purpose is one topic where these differences in remit can be vividly illustrated, as Thomas W. Malnight, Ivy Buche and Charles Dhanaraj remind us in “Put purpose …
By Elisabeth Goodman, 6th October 2019 According to Nancy Kline, author of “Time to Think”, thinking for ourselves and thinking well, is what enables us to be effective in anything that we do. And yet many things mitigate against us being able to think as frequently or as well as we could. Barriers to thinking …
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