Some of these six problems apply to projects other than IT projects. 1 A failure to distinguish between want and need.  At least one person has explicitly stated the supplier has to find out what the client wants and deliver it  No!  That will end in tears.  You have to establish... Read More

Problem [*1]:  I am a 40-year-old man who has always suffered with incredible shyness and insecurity around women. My shyness is better now; I can talk to women, and have female friends, but I have never really had a proper relationship. The few times I have had sex with women... Read More

Most pop groups and solo performers peak on their second disc, at least they used to.  Pink Floyd, Jefferson Airplane and many others.  After that high spot, everything afterwards has been a remorseless trudge into the depths of increasing banality. And they know it. It went... Read More

emotional intelligence at work uses a model that postulates that relationships go through five stages * (see also About this model below). 1  Honeymoon stage The first of these is the honeymoon stage.  We are all familiar with that sudden overwhelming feeling of “true love”—more... Read More

1 I am no Labour supporter, but I want a strong Labour leader.  Mr Jeremy Corbyn has to go firstly because he has failed to deliver a credible—or any—opposition to the government in the lifetime of his “leadership”. His first duty was to his country, not to a particular faction... Read More

1 As a preamble, we should recognise that high profile politicians, particularly those in government, have always let us down.  I hope to return to this subject in a forthcoming post. When I was a student, we had the ‘three day week’—a joint production between tory prime... Read More

Here is my blog of 26 february [*1] (cut), annotated with what really happened Why any referendum is a political cop out 1   The issue is too complex to be reducible to a single question to which the only answers are yes and no. … whether the UK should stay in the EU is too... Read More

1 One of the most irritating aspects of the aftermath of the EU referendum is those voters who, having voted to leave, are now choosing to express their ‘buyer’s remorse’ in public “I voted leave to help our economy. However the £ has plummeted and I immediately regret my... Read More

1 It would be churlish to complain that Mr Jeremy Corbyn is/was no leader, when no other high profile politician (with a very few exceptions) has been a leader either *.  I like to think that Shirley Williams is one, but I would have to go back to Churchill to think of another... Read More

Not necessarily in this order: 1  Gove wins Conservative leadership election and proves wholly incapable of uniting the party.  Conservative party splits into right/far-right group (incorporating UKIP, BNP and the rest) and more centrist group 2  The UK has an early general... Read More