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Rugby Refereeing and Business
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘Rugby Refereeing and Business’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/11/04/rugby-refereeing-and-business/’; To paraphrase Ferris Bueller – “Life moves pretty fast on the rugby pitch”. No other sport has the equivalent number of players on the field with so few officials. In Rugby there is one official, always addressed as Sir or Ma’am, and 30 players playing for 2 [...]
Making Way For New Talent
This summer at a rugby match I was watching an formerly good player play a position at which he once excelled, but was now half a step too slow to be consistently effective. His play calling was perfect and he found the defensive holes to exploit, but now instead of getting his passes off cleanly, he was getting tackled and losing [...]
Clients are like 3-year-olds! Treat them accordingly!
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology on 2009/08/11
For those of you who manage clients this is not exactly news. As a parent of a 3-year-old, I recently realized there were many parallels between parenting a 3-year-old and managing clients. 1. First and foremost – you have to take care of both of them. Much like a 3-year-old, clients need to be taken [...]
7 reasons Gardening is like Managing
Managing a team and gardening share many similarities. Recently while planting seeds in rich soil full of compost and manure I thought about just how similar managing and gardening really are. So here are the 7 ways Gardening and Managing are similar. There are more, of course, but I thought 7 was a good start. 1. If you only have shade to [...]
Leadership always matters, especially in the Military
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/06/03
In the Navy I worked for a variety of commanding officers. All of them career officers and all of them wanted to have successful commands. But what was striking were the differences of leadership in how they sought to achieve that success. In the military, unlike in the civilian world, the commanding officer doesn’t have to [...]
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