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Contract extensions and cross-gov working

Guides and tips on making the very most of your Manual of Me, based upon years of working with individuals and organisations implementing the concept and framework

We face decisions every single day, big and small. Sometimes those decisions have tradeoffs that feel impossible to decide between, which naturally will feel...

Being VP of Engineering is harder and lonelier than being CEO. Make things better with these tips for translating engineering to executives.

My thoughts about becoming and staying highly employable and keeping one step ahead of the curve.

How to balance the solitude of working when others are asleep with the need for collaboration with teammates in different timezones.

Compared to the Full Stack Designer, we seem to be more familiar with the Full Stack Developers. So what is full stack designer exactly…

Understanding design unicorns

A designer’s ability to move between creative functions is not a luxury, it’s a business necessity

The Civil Service competency framework, sets out how we want people in the Civil Service to work.

If I'm stuck in a creative downturn, there's usually only one remedy: keep going. That is, accept the downturn, but continue to stare at the computer, waiting for it to pass. While staring at the computer, there's room for menial and managerial tasks put aside during more inspired times. Checking up on things, getting back to people, a...

In this series of short stories, I share tricky situations I’ve encountered while leading teams. These experiences have taught me invaluable leadership lessons and greatly influenced my manag…

Over the last year, I have managed seven developers (iOS and Android) inside a Mobile Team with Quality Engineers, Product managers and…

Some things that aren't worth doing are worth overdoing. Click to read Maximum Effort, Minimum Reward, by Dylan Black, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.

Few things are as costly and disruptive as good people walking out the door.

Hammering the cramps.

Researchers proved decades ago that venting won’t make you feel better.

Resist the temptation to let machines manage you

Helping your team to thrive with flow state

You cannot automate creativity to create the unknown

Strategies to help find creative inner discipline, seek perfection, push beyond and demystify.

Baptiste Bouffaut, our CTO here at Ponicode, recently joined us for a chat about programming languages and what we can expect them to look like in the future. Here are the main areas we covered:

Positive thinking and visualising success can actually make you miserable – happily, other strategies for fulfilment are available

Time has a monetary value to you. That is, money and time can be traded for one another in lots of circumstances, and there are prices that you are willing to take and prices you are not. Hopefully…

With more people working from home, asynchronous communication will become key to being productive while keeping our sanity. What are its benefits? What strategies can you use to embrace asynchronous communication at work? I have a confession to make. I think Slack is awful. It’s distracting, noisy, and makes it hard to get the information ... Read more

Most peope think they have a growth mindset. This is called the “false growth mindset”—to learn how it actually works, you need to turn to Carol Dweck.

All creatives are searching for a way to demonstrate that their work has a concrete business value. But does such a measurement really exist?