Adrian Trenholm

You’ll never work alone

October 10th, 2005

Dwayne ( ), Bren ( Slacker Manager ), and Skip ( Random Thoughts from a CTO ) just launched a really interesting blog and Google group today, called Never work alone . Here’s how they explain it:

What’s Never Work Alone all about? We’ve all been through “trial by fire” management situations, and have faced difficult management and leadership dilemmas at various points in our careers. As active participants in the brain trust on the internet, we also understand the tremendous power of Community. The goal of Never Work Alone is to provide a community for managers and leaders to share their experiences and challenges, help each other grapple with issues, learn from each other, and advance the state of the art in enlightened leadership.

Basically, once you have join the Google group , you can e-mail in any management dilemma with which you would like some help. Dwayne, Bren and Skip will select one e-mail per week and put it up for discussion on the Google group. Anyone in the group can respond with anything he or she thinks might be helpful and the bloggers will then summarise the group responses on the blog.

Years ago I read Tom Peters’ and in almost every chapter he suggests that getting together with kindred spirits is a great way to learn and develop. I really love the way Dwayne, Bren and Skip are providing online facilitation for that meeting of minds.

Unfortunately, the name also makes me think of the football (soccer to the Americans). So, with apologies to Gerry and the Pacemakers and the Anfield kop :

Work on
Work on
With hope in your heart
‘Cos you’ll never work alone
No, you’ll never work alone

Great project - good luck with it, guys.

Entry Filed under: New perspectives , Leadership