To become a good manager all I needed was a mix of people that manage people. One fluid ounce of principal, a ½ fluid ounce of social worker, and 1 fluid ounce of HR, topped with crushed ice and served in a tall glass with a slice of lemon
Conferences just like the new normal, have a new look. We are now in the era of the hybrid conference: all the best bits from the old with the new, but without facemasks and hand sanitiser.
When it comes to building a better tree care business, he tangata (it is people). Ancient wisdom is sometimes just common sense.
How to transition from an industrial athlete to an office worker; what can you do once you have skated on water to stop you from sinking like a stone?
The customer has to be always right because that is what business people and pushy customers say. But the reality is that customers are often wrong, and sometimes not just a little bit wrong, but absolutely wrong.
What I took from the evening, apart from a weariness of clocks, is that time is an abstract concept. What is or is not permanent depends on your point of view and when it comes to trees, time is age and location dependent.
Synergies of woe, not being an emo band or a book being touted on a day-time television chat show, but the realisation that each sector of the green industry had the same issue and the same set of villains.
I had been planting trees and shrubs for over 20 years and I didn’t realise that poor planting was such a problem - but clearly, it was then and it seems that it still is.
A journeyman is an old-school term for a worker who is skilled in a given trade, someone that had completed an apprenticeship but had not yet mastered their craft. A journeyman was someone who had spent enough time working on their craft to have gained a qualification but needed to spent time working in their ...
Henry Louis Mencken is famous for many things including saying; “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Henry was an American satirist and cultural critic who died 1950’s – by all accounts he was free with his opinion and took no prisoners. I suspect he’d be finding easy ...