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Do what you do best.
About 4 years ago, I was told to get out of my own way. Which was polite speak for "you are crap at running your company, get someone in who loves doing that sort of thing because you are ruining your life and any future prospects your company might have”. I...
Box Breathing
It has been hectic in Ruckusland of late, lots of changes and life is a little more complicated than usual - turns out adding "open a pub" to your to-do list comes with a rather impressive number of subtasks. Over the last couple of years, I have been working on my...
Cellar Management
On our journey to becoming best stocktakers in the world, I have descended the steps to hundreds of cellars. As part of that noble mission, I went on a cellar management course yesterday which, aside from being unexpectedly interesting, means I need to have some...
“Use Two Hands!”
I nearly dropped my digital scales this morning, I was juggling them with a bag of flour and in my head, my father’s voice was chiding me to "USE TWO HANDS!". I then gave myself a good chide as that is the piece of advice I hand out most often to colleagues,...
The power of a ritual #blog
It is my birthday today and our family celebrated with a ritual that developed, quite by accident, a few birthdays ago. The cake is made the day before, the kitchen table decorated with lights and banners and when we wake, a fuss is made, we sing the song and have...
To write, or not to write (it down)
If you ever wondered how a waiter can take a large order without writing it down, a waiter taking a large order without writing it down, led to the answer - an answer I found in Sönke Ahrens book, How to Take Smart Notes. The story goes that in the 1920s, the Soviet...
