End of year holidays – a time to rest and renew our energy for new beginnings The end of year holidays and the beginning of the New Year are a good opportunity to rest and renew our energy for whatever our chosen direction in life! They’ve worked their usual magic with me and my enthusiasm …
By Elisabeth Goodman Last night I heard Sheri Kershaw & Band at the Royston Folk Club – our favourite twice-monthly music venue. She introduced her first song ‘Colours of Life‘ with the observation that we will all suffer at some time in our lives, and the suggestion that we embrace rather than resist this experience, as …
By Elisabeth Goodman Social Media: putting you and your business at the heart of your community Back in 2010 I wrote a blog about how Social Media could be used as a key tool for sharing knowledge and for business development, and effective ways to go about that. [Social Media: putting your and your business …
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People leave their managers not their companies “70% of people leave their managers or supervisors, not their company”. These were some of the research findings shared with us this morning by Sue Gibson, Human Resources Consultant at DoubleG Assosiates LLP, in a Cambridge Network Breakfast meeting on retention and motivation of staff. She also told …
By John Riddell Notes from a Cambridge Network talk by Eric Ries I attended the January Cambridge Network meeting, which was focused on a talk by Eric Ries, the author of a new book entitled “The Lean Startup”. Eric had developed the book based on the lessons learned by entrepreneurial start-ups of software companies that …
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‘Simply putting clever people together does not make a team’, and, ‘There are many examples of extremely bright and talented groups that signally underperform’. So say Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones in ‘Clever. Leading your smartest, most creative people.’ (1) This book, which Elisabeth Goodman, principal consultant at RiverRhee Consulting, picked up as a result …
When Alan Payne, then Director of Kodak’s European Research team, found out that his 25 strong Cambridge unit was to close in early 2009, he spotted an opportunity that was to prove irresistible. He suggested to one of the US business heads that they could continue the project they had been working on, outside of …
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