Sir Roger Moore’s review of From Behind the Mask (yes 007!)
I, like many others, vividly remember the news reports and pictures from the site of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash and the later front page images of Pam Warren wearing her mask. Who could forget? But in between and since those headlines there is another story which, until I picked up this book, I knew […]
Bringing a Book to Market – part 3
And so there we all sat in the sun dappled courtyard of the Garden Museum, my friend Tony, Sam and Suzanne from Biteback and myself. The advantage of meeting face to face with Biteback Publishing was that I was able to ‘present’ my story. They could see the passion I had for the manuscript and, […]
Bringing a Book to Market – part 2
The phone rang, it was the publishing agent. ‘Do you want the good news or the bad news?’ he said, referring to my manuscript. ‘It is a fantastic story and very inspiring’ was the good news. The bad was ‘you’ve written it very much in the third person, it is too impersonal, there needs to […]
Bringing a Book to Market – part 1
With the advent of the internet and modern technology publishing a book should be easy or so we are told. That may be true once you’ve written your tale but no-one tells you how difficult it can be to hone your story ready for publication. I will never be able to pick up an autobiography […]
Crisis of Confidence
I was recently trying to explain to a project team member about the consequences of their actions (or inaction) and how it was likely to affect the outcome of our project. At the start of this particular project I had done my best to get the members to visualise what we were trying to achieve […]
Visualize Your Goal
‘Can’t see beyond the end of your nose’ is an old saying that keeps popping up in my mind as I come across young project managers. It is not that they are not good at their job or don’t know how to apply the dictated processes that abound in our occupation. It is more that […]
Children’s Burns Research Centre
Having been a burns victim myself it was quite a shock to me to find out recently that there is no specific difference to the way children with burns are treated as to how adults are treated. Even as a layman I can appreciate that children’s skin is going to be different to adults. It […]
Finding Motivation in Business
Finding motivation can sometimes be the hardest part of a daunting task: when there’s a big project deadline coming up or you simply need to get your head down and wade through e-mails, it’s sometimes difficult to muster up the willpower. It doesn’t need to be so hard though. As with most things, breaking willpower […]
Things That Make You Feel Proud
I recently received a telephone call from a relative which took me aback quite a bit but ultimately warmed the cockles of my heart. In 2001 I was lucky enough to be awarded the Bob Cotton Citizen Awards by Unison. The award was created to commemorate Bob Cotton, a member of UNISON’s governing body, the national executive […]