Management | Joe's Jottings https://joepritchard.me.uk Being the homepage and blog of Joe... Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:49:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 I write software…to solve problems https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/08/i-write-software-to-solve-problems/ Thu, 05 Aug 2010 09:29:48 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1225 Well, it’s a while since I wrote a blog post so why not kick off with a slight bit of professional heresy.  I write software for a living; have done for over 30 years, starting with SCMP microprocessors in my teens (yes, I was THAT sort of teenager…) and working through everything in between until […]

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]]> The world’s messy – get used to it https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/the-worlds-messy-get-used-to-it/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:22:41 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1189 One of the great things about Twitter is that it brings articles to my attention that I wouldn’t otherwise have read. This blog post originated in one of those articles. It’s here – in it, the writer notes that managers and creatives tend to work on different chunks of time for getting things done – […]

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]]> Tweeting in meetings…. https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/06/tweeting-in-meetings/ Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:04:41 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1140 I came across this rather interesting article from the personal blog of a Pastor in the US recently in which he suggests that Tweeting in Church might be a good idea.  Now, I have to admit that I was something of a late adopter with Twitter (and Facebook…and for that matter with SMS texting….yeah, OK, I’m a […]

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]]> Arrogance 2.0 https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/04/arrogance-2-0/ Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:27:07 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=1026 Maybe I’m just old, or maybe I just don’t get some aspects of modern business – or are some people online purporting to be business experts just arrogant and opinionated folks with insufficient experience and a habit of stating the bleedin’ obvious as if they’d just discovered a Unified Field Theory? And what triggered this off?  As frequently […]

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]]> The next, next, next thing! https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/02/the-next-next-next-thing/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:12:50 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=664 Hands up whoever has heard of the Red Queen’s Race?  That was the athletic event in Wonderland where the participants had to run very hard to stay exactly where they were.  I’m becoming convinced that we’re entering in to that sort of event in the online marketing and PR world – and probably beyond as […]

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]]> Innovative is not the same as useful https://joepritchard.me.uk/2010/01/innovative-is-not-the-same-as-useful/ Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:59:56 +0000 http://www.joepritchard.me.uk/?p=653 I recently found this on my Twitterfeed: @jakebrewer: Yes! Note from newly devised Hippocratic oath for Gov 2.0 apps: “Don’t confuse novelty with usefulness.”  It is so true – and that comes from someone who spent part of his MBA working on the management of creativity and innovation.  There is a science fiction story by […]

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