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30-06-2014
When an international conference you’ve planned gets rave reviews or a special event you’ve worked on turns out really well, you get a good feeling. You feel like you’re helping people and doing good work. At least I do. And that’s what most people want from a career; something that provides an exciting challenge, rewards their effort and gives them inspiration to achieve great things in the future.
24-05-2014
Okay, so I’ll admit to being a bit flippant with the headline here, but the fact is that at Sea to Sky we deal with big, complicated projects that take a lot of careful planning. We’ve had to become very good at doing it. Getting control of competing priorities, managing workload and exceeding clients’ expectations can be tough and there’s no getting away from the need to work exceptionally hard. But there are a few things I’ve learned over the years about leadership, teamwork and project management that I think are worth sharing.
23-04-2014
The philosopher George Santayana famously wrote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s hardly the most cheerful of lines. But what if we look at it a little differently? Suppose we were to modify things a bit: “Those who cannot remember how they came by their success will find it hard to be successful in the future.” Not a quote that is destined to become a classic, perhaps, but it allows me to illustrate an important point.
