Tag: Leadership

  • The 3 Cs: Capability, culture and communication

    A few years ago now I started to use this idea of the 4Ps to define my approach to my work — it looked something like this → People — Upper management buy-in, digital residents (not natives), critical friends, (access to) multi-disciplinary teams. Processes — agile with a small ‘a’, lean minus the sleaze, access to decision makers. Platforms — flexible infrastructure, a…

  • Leaving @ONSdigital

    https://gph.is/VwEstx Never one to miss out on a trend I thought I’d join the prime minister, England football manager, countless shadow cabinet members, the leader of an unnamed party and at least one famous TV presenter who have all resigned from their jobs in the last 10 days or so. After three years and change…

  • [book report] Turn The Ship Around! by L. David Marquet

    Once upon a time while holidaying in Sydney, Australia I decided to visit the WW2 submarine that you could board that was docked in the harbour. The tight spaces triggered an attack of claustrophobia the like of which I had never had before or since and the ensuing panic attack took the rest of the…

  • Lead to succeed?

    There have been a few blogposts recently about what it means to be a leader — Andrew, Kit, Janet and others have contributed and they have all been interesting and helpful. There was also a great article about Tony Ageh, who despite the fact I have never met him has long been what I considered the definition…

  • Humans.txt

    I really wanted to add a /humans.txt file to the new ONS website but I never got around to it and then I ran away to the other side of the world for a bit. In lieu of doing it properly I just wanted to acknowledge everybody who made this site, that I am so…