Rocking the boat does not mean turning into a full anarchist, deliberately being obstructive, and negative. It means being inquisitive, challenging, questioning, engaging, visualizing a different way of seeing things. Getting people to see challenges in a different way.
How Do You Deal with Stupidity? by Tim Maidment
We all know stupidity when we see it, at least right up until the point we don’t.
A Girl’s Pink, Shrinking World by Kate Gowers
There will always be boys who fancy themselves firemen and have no room for girly stuff in their lives. But many children fall somewhere between those two extremes
Proud not pride
I am told there are 7 deadly signs. I am guilty of many sloth , greed, lust, wrath. Wrath more than most of lately has been my biggest sin. If I wanted to quantify my wrath it would be based on grief. Does this then make my wrath a sin or part of the normal… Continue reading Proud not pride
TWITT Honours list
Every year a new years honours list is produced by HRH Queen Elizabeth II. So in honour of the amazing people in my life I wanted to nominate some of them to make them realise just how awesome and amazing they are to me. The first on has to go to my husband Tim Maidment. … Continue reading TWITT Honours list
The Glass Slipper pt2
It’s 2015, it’s all about equality for everyone. Yey! Calling all women, calling all women, equality; what does it mean to you? I’m a CEO of a company that invests in women all over the world. But right now what I do doesn’t matter too much. More so I want to talk about the glass… Continue reading The Glass Slipper pt2
The glass slipper
It’s harder than I thought to write this blog. Firstly my parameter was to write about my experiences of getting ahead in my business and secondly, how that was for a women, especially in a male oriented business. TWITT is raising a very valid point. Women in I.T! Wonderful, I’m all for a women in… Continue reading The glass slipper
Gender in Recruitment
Recently, I was talking to a friend who was building a senior IT leadership team to report into a female IT director and I asked how many of the nine roles had gone to women. The reply was “none” followed up by “there were absolutely no female applicants”. We both rolled our eyes out of… Continue reading Gender in Recruitment
Go Fish
When I started my previous job as an IS Contract manager one of the first things I was given was a book called Fish and it told a story about people working in a fish market and how they worked and were productive on a day to day basis. The key to all this was… Continue reading Go Fish
Be more dog
Do you want to be more dog? like the O2 advert ask you to be. Do you want to be more Fish? Eagle? or even, do you want to be more Male? What does it really matter what you are, as long as you are happy. The concern is that the corporate world demands a… Continue reading Be more dog
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