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Why Your Team Deserve Better Than Being Called 'Resources' After 30 years in business, I've learned something the hard way: the spreadsheet view of people will kill your company faster than any market downturn. I see it everywhere: in board meetings, strategy documents even in my own earlier choice of words. "We need more resources for Q3." "Our utilisation is down." "Let's optimise our capacity."…
I've been having the same conversation a lot lately. Friends at the pub, former colleagues, even my mum – they all ask the same thing: "Why didn't you take that high paying CTO job?" Fair question, really. Over the past couple of years, I've been offered several full-time CTO roles. Good money, proper challenges, the kind of positions that would look impressive on LinkedIn. The sort of thing that,…