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Do less work, get more done – my four day week

I saw this article by Andrew Simms in the Guardian recently: four-day-week-less-is-more Andrew uses an example of the public services in Utah responding to the financial crisis by asking workers Continue reading →

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Visual minuting – latest experiment

I am getting into visual minuting as way to document meetings and ideas. I went on a Creative Connection workshop after working with them a couple of times. They drew Continue reading →

Urgent and important? Do everything else first.

Curtis called me last week full of news about a great meeting he’d had. We had an opportunity to pitch for some really interesting work together with some people in Continue reading →

Manifestos, values and codes of conduct

We are getting ready to rewrite our manifesto at People Who Do and planning to do it with a day at Amberley Museum where Curtis and Emily volunteer. They have Continue reading →

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More stories from the wall

Here are more of the stories from last week’s talk. I have enjoyed re-reading them: little moments from other people’s lives, shared and now re-experienced with each reading. When I Continue reading →

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Stories written one cold winter’s night

I gave a talk for at Create’s new monthly event. I chose to talk about stories: their power and efficiency at delivering complex layers of meaning, ideology, emotions and empathy. Continue reading →

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Stories I need to hear more of…

Thank you to those who came to my talk on stories at Create this week. I enjoyed myself thoroughly and really appreciated the comments made. One person even took notes, Continue reading →

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What gets in the way of you doing your best work?

At People Who Do we recently gave a talk at the Information Services departmental meeting at Channel 4. We’ve been working with a number of people there on personal productivity. Continue reading →

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Bee Talk at the Brighton Science Festival (2011)

Here's a video I posted on the People Who Do blog a while ago. I feel like it should live here too now. It was a Pecha Kucha event so Continue reading →

The objects we own tell stories about us

I saw David Hieatt give a talk about his jeans company in Cardigan at the Meaning conference in Brighton. He was showing off the quality of his jeans while telling Continue reading →

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