by Seb Matthews | Aug 12, 2017 | Azure, BoardRoom, Microsoft
(Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash) Recent financial data (see here) from Microsoft is suggesting that the shift of Microsoft customers away from traditional on-premises usage of products towards the Microsoft cloud is gathering momentum. Despite the misgivings held...
by sebmatthews | Mar 23, 2017 | BoardRoom, Work Smarter
Meetings are chaos. Meetings waste time. Meeting serve no purpose. All things we have heard about meetings wherever we work and whatever we do. The reality is that meetings are not all pointless time wasting, they just need rules. Too many meetings simply...
by sebmatthews | Jan 6, 2017 | BoardRoom, Work Smarter
Tiger and his red shirt, Lebron lobbing chalk into the air, Rafa Nadal and his water bottles and Seb Vettel and his lucky coin in his F1 shoe – all quirky ‘pre-game’ rituals of athletes who at one point were unquestionably the best in the world at...
by sebmatthews | Jan 3, 2017 | BoardRoom, Work Smarter
I use Outlook meetings in my calendar for a number of reasons – not all of them about planning forward. They’re a useful place to hold meeting material such as shared artefacts (I know, I know) amongst other things, but my primary reason for keeping them...
by sebmatthews | Dec 27, 2016 | BoardRoom, Work Smarter
I’m not a hippy but sometimes I feel the need to think like one. What do I mean by that? Get outside! Take time in your day to decompress even if only for a short period a couple of times a day. If there is greenery near you, all the better. I find the...
by sebmatthews | Dec 26, 2016 | BoardRoom, Work Smarter
I’m in and out of rental cars constantly. One day I’ll hire a peon to drive me when I am away from home but for now, I’m beholden to the golden President’s Circle. Why am I writing this down? I wanted to share the most profound of life hacks...
