Category: jobs
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Credit where it is due corner
Sometimes it is important to give people their flowers – especially when (a) they do something that makes your life easier and (b) are already partners in crime. In quick succession in recent weeks my collaborators on the Product for the People meet-up series shared things that immediately got added to my product coaching toolbox.…
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Week 30 / 2026
Well gosh that was quite the week wasn’t it? Oh my. The dissolution of DSIT didn’t come completely out of the blue – I’d seen some online speculation bandied around and then there were articles in the Sundays but it was still shock enough to widen the eyes – especially the move to DCMS –…
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A Hopeful Hiring Handbook?
A while ago I mentioned that I was having a chat about whether I had an idea for a book with a genuine, real life publisher. As it happened I had two which is just as well as one of them has actually been bagsied elsewhere 😆 Now I don’t know whether the publisher will…
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How [Public Service Product] People Work
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I was recently a ‘guest’ on Dan Hon’s new online event type thing – How People Work…LIVE!. The session is on Youtube – I will never, ever look/listen at that but maybe you will. It was a pretty nerve wracking occasion given some of the folks who attended (at least three of whom I was…
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Week 29/2026
I think sometime this week was 100 working days in this role (if you remove all of my sick days). Usually I’d try and write some kind of retrospective to mark the milestone but honestly this week I’ve been feeling pretty disappointed by the whole experience – even accounting for the health scare (and England…
