I’ve found this is definitely true in smaller organisations where you’re working directly with the client. A lot of my work in the past on large change projects, which involved working with people in the organisation who weren’t the direct client. Their motivations could be ’somewhat different’. On one project I worked on in France, the senior manager assigned to the project from the exec team joined a strike against the project then came back to work on the projec…

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I agree, Ben. Having said that, I’ve also been given work from people who, in response to me making myself vulnerable when I’ve been in a bind, have reached out to me with work.

Of course, this wasn’t charity: the work was well within my wheel house, so they knew I would do a good job, & they genuinely needed the work doing.

But again, this kindness at a time when I needed it most (they could have given the work to others) had more to do with making connections with p…

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Tagging Lexi Radcliffe-Hart and Caoimhe Kelly too because I know we’ve spoken about this before! Also Alex Pitt and Saori Okada because I figured you might be interested…

Great, that sounds interesting. When is it?

Sounds good, just registered