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Dr. Jasmin Smajic's avatar

Beautiful and to the point article! I’ve been insisting on introducing systems to my team, so I’m very happy that you mentioned it here. Will you at some point expand on how to build strong systems?

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Heather Elkington's avatar

Hey - Love to hear it

And yes absolutely! I can do a deep dive into this at some point soon or possibly even a live event as it's quite a lengthy topic

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Lee Cross's avatar

That last bit is so reassuring to hear you say. It's something I've been wrestling with recently, particularly as me and my team have got on top of a bunch of legacy issues. I'm finding myself able to move much further away from firefighting urgent issues but it is leaving me with a guilty feeling whenever I have full control over my diary - as if I'm "not busy enough".

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Heather Elkington's avatar

Love that - That's where you get to really win

When you actually have space in your day to work on the 'important' not the 'urgent'

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Aravind's avatar

I am curious about your working experience with a founder of Microsoft! Can you elaborate on that?

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Heather Elkington's avatar

Hey! Sure thing, he was the CPO at Sage, Walid Abu-Hadba

Awesome and very talented guy

He wasn't a co-founder of Microsoft, but he was very high up and his team were instrumental in the building of Excel

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