A blog where I write intermittently about various topics in the tech sector

Stage Five - It's hard to lead the life you choose

Stage Five - It's hard to lead the life you choose

Sometimes the hardest part of leading is the discovery that your community is succeeding with and without you

Drew Pontikis

Stage Four - Down to the Crossroads

Stage Four - Down to the Crossroads

Today we look at a Community of Practice which finds itself with a decision to make - having seemingly realised all its potential, the leader needs to find a way to revitalise the community...

Drew Pontikis

Stage Three - My Mistakes Were Made For You

Stage Three - My Mistakes Were Made For You

"There are leaders, and there are those who lead. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves" Simon Sinek

Drew Pontikis

Stage Two: The Spark

Stage Two: The Spark

In the second stage of Communities of Practice, we'll look at an imagined but somehow familiar situation that leads to the birth of a new fledgling community

Drew Pontikis

Stage One - Pre-Genesis

Stage One - Pre-Genesis

The first in a series of articles I'm calling the Seven Stages of Communities of Practice

Drew Pontikis

Ghosts in the System

Ghosts in the System

The first proper public speaking I did at a tech meetup was about ghost hunting in the digital age. Not because I believe in ghosts (there's no such thing as ghosts), but because ghost hunting is my guilty pleasure and I was fairly confident that it was the one thing I could talk about that I would be the most informed person in the room about, meaning no one would be able to embarrass me with a question I didn't know the answer to.

Drew Pontikis
Ghosts in the System

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A blog where I write intermittently about various topics in the tech sector