Random thoughts on things that are half connected to the way I think about HR, L&D, Management, Leadership, business and the world…. and the world of business and the business of the world – David D'Souza (@dds180)
I happened upon a question yesterday night in some tweets by Clare Haynes about whether people have 'Twitter goals'. I said that I did and that I'd be happy to share - so here we go. When I started working as an independent I realised that I had a wealth of options open to me [...]
I'm 34 years old. I look older. I've reached the point in life where the good days are gone in a flash and the less good days seem to drag like they never did before. The way time itself works in changing - seasons just seem to drift into each other and my daughter is [...]
If you follow my blog you'll know that I was attempting to pseudogamify my diet. The original post is here . I'm sort of attempting to apply techniques from the workplace to my quest to be less podgy. Shortly after I posted the blog I caught a bug (that I'm squarely blaming Perry Timms for) [...]
The 5 books I aim to cover in these blogs are all worth a read. To make things faster (and probably shallower for you) I'm going to give you a short summary each books and then key lessons for HR - so it's almost like you don't have to read them. Obviously I would recommend [...]
Ok... if you haven't seen Star Wars then please just read my Blog on Jaws, if you haven't seen Jaws then please read my Blog on Job Hunting. If you don't have an awareness of any of these things then: congratulations on getting a job, why don't you sit down this weekend and watch Jaws [...]
About 3 years ago I started writing a book. That book was never published for a variety of reasons, chiefly that I only ever wrote 6 pages and it wasn't very good. It was going to be on lessons for business from the movies - and then suddenly everyone was writing about business lessons from [...]
101 Half Connected Things 