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The Diary Of A Manager
This is the story of my disastrous time as a manager for a failing software development company. My diary reveals the reality of dealing with too many systems and a management team being too far from the work being done. It's a comic story of my decline and the terrible results of a badly managed software project.
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This is the story of my disastrous time as a manager for a failing software development company. My diary reveals the reality of dealing with too many systems and a management team being too far from the work being done. It's a comic story of my decline and the terrible results of a badly managed software project.
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Rob Lambert
Rob Lambert runs Cultivated, a publishing-led practice for people who know work could be better — and are willing to do something about it. Talks, writing, teaching and consulting on how ideas become value inside organisations.
Rob is trained in Media Science, the empirical study of how messages move, distort, and fragment as they travel. He spent his early working years chasing stories for films, newspapers and publishing. He then spent twenty + years helping companies turn their great ideas into valuable outcomes, and cultivate enriching places to work too, including growing a startup from to a £400m + exit.
He has held VP Engineering and VP HR roles — a rare pairing that shapes how he thinks about both delivery and people. At his heart though, Rob is a creative and storyteller.
He writes at cultivatedmanagement.com, makes films at Creative Soul Projects, and co-hosts the Stationery Freaks podcast. Based in Winchester, works internationally.
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