GeekBoss

Articles about management by Matthew Stibbe

Blog

Geek or creative: which personality type are you?

I’m a self-confessed geek. My ex-wife is a creative – an actress. My daily life was once a kind of experiment in reconciling two very different ways of dealing with the world. In an experience-driven economy, the balance or choice ‘geek or creative’ may be the most important thing to get right.

Why is this important? Well, my job involves the same challenge. Writing is 50 percent technique (geek stuff) and 50 percent inspiration (creative stuff) and, according to my accountant, 10 percent arithmetic.

[Read more…] about Geek or creative: which personality type are you?

Impatience is a virtue

My colleague, Clare, gave me this title – ‘impatience is a virtue’ – to work with and this is what I came up with.

Get a cup of coffee and prepare for launch. Rome wasn’t built in a day but it should have been. The status quo is obsolete. Best practice is someone else’s idea of what you should do. Good enough isn’t. As an entrepreneur, it’s all about attitude.

Impatience – the fierce hunger for progress – is one of the defining characteristics of an entrepreneur. For them (for us), impatience is a virtue.

[Read more…] about Impatience is a virtue

How to improve morale and confidence: lessons from General Bill Slim

As a boss, one of the biggest challenges is to build morale and the confidence of your team. It’s not easy. But it is important.

“It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs,” said Kenneth Clark at the end of his classic TV series Civilisation.

[Read more…] about How to improve morale and confidence: lessons from General Bill Slim