Bøger af Martin Duffy

Are you now cruising the cyberspace with remote work and online meetings as a default mode of collaboration these days? Then you shouldn't be surprised to see that you can stay an equally productive organization and conduct business almost as usual. We live in exciting times. Thanks to the Digital Revolution we are fortunate to have reached a stage in our civilization where nothing prevents high-quality decision-making in teams regardless of physical presence. Today, you can be equally effective at working online. This book proposes that virtual meetings can become a regular part of the organizational collaborative flows, where simple tools such as Teams, Zoom or WebEx are all part of daily support for ad-hoc collaboration, along with other collaborative web-based tools that provide a unique opportunity for engaging your valued customers as well as your workforce in a participative planning process that is required to thrive in today's business environment.While there are many ways to work remotely in our newly emerging world, this book offers an insightful and useful guide for how to do that in the most effective way possible. I was lucky to have found four digital collaboration druids - Elise Keith, Ilkka Mäkitalo, Jeremy Lu, and Kelvin McGrath - whom I have convinced to contribute a chapter each. I was even luckier to have found a twin soul in what concerns the art and science of meetings, a colleague consultant and PhD - Martin Duffy - without whom this book would have not been possible. Last but not least, the guest preface by Maarten Vanneste, the founder of Meeting Architecture as a discipline and a permanent source of inspiration in these book series. This book caters equally for any of these 3 groups of readers, albeit with different levels of relevance and importance:1) If you are a meeting professional, you should definitively read it as your clients will be perceiving you as a source of improvement of their meetings and you might want to learn more about them in order to enrich your professional offer. 2) If you are an executive or team leader you may find some of these tools too advanced for your current needs or maybe not. The latter would be the case if your company is already in an advanced digital stage and doing business in a heavily competing environment. These tools can provide you with a sustainable advantage in the way your company runs meetings. 3) Finally, if you are a learner or influencer, you may find that AI-powered technology is going to make serious inroads in the world of adult learning and group facilitation, and you might as well be conscious of their impact by reading this book. As Maarten Vanneste says in the preface: "This book will give you several ideas that can make such real interaction, conversations and collaborations reality."

A young girl, Flo, tries to be friendly with an old horse kept in the stables of her riding school. She learns that this horse, Augustus, was once a world champion show jumper but is now crippled and bitter.

First published in 2006, Barney and Molly: A True Dublin Love Story has now been updated to include additional information on the Duffy and Dowdall families dating back to the times of the Great Famine. The definitive edition of this captivating memoir presents the story of Barney and Molly Duffy, who married in 1926 and raised fifteen children in Dublin amidst tremendous political and social upheaval.Their family journey spans generations, from rural Ireland to London, Toronto, and beyond. Despite facing numerous challenges, Barney and Molly's profound love and devotion to each other remain at the heart of this captivating tale. This memoir offers a glimpse into the lives of those who lived through Ireland's evolution into the country it is today. Martin Duffy, the youngest of the fifteen children and an unexpected late addition to the family saga when born in 1952, pays tribute to his extraordinary family lineage.

This memoir tells the story of the first twenty-one years of my life, growing up and coming of age in the working class Dublin Corporation housing estate of Crumlin.Although humorous when telling my tale, the book also includes stories of abuse, death and loss. The chapters unfold from my unlikely birth - the youngest of fifteen children - to Crumlin life, the death of my brother Paddy in a London road accident and the abuse I suffered through a 'Christian' Brother at school. From a little boy priest in Blackrock College and then as an apprentice projectionist in the Kenilworth Cinema and a year as clapper/loader in Ardmore Studios. The story goes on through my difficult teenage years of alienation from my father and his death at the age of seventy, a month before my 21st birthday and a few months before my marrying my pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend. That marked the end of my life in 147, Leighlin Road and the start of my life as a married man and father-to-be.This book will be of interest to anyone of a Dublin/Irish heritage who will understand my journey. Back in my day emigration, particularly to England, was part of Irish life and that is reflected in my story. I am an experienced storyteller and now I am finally telling my own story of the years that formed the man I am today.

Barney and Molly Duffy raised 13 children in a tiny two-bedroom Dublin Corporation home. Contained in this book is nearly a century of lore compiled by their youngest from years of family collaboration.