Prompted by lifehacker’s call for the best goal tracking app or service, I thought now was a good moment to share how I use Milestone Planner to track (and more importantly, achieve) my personal goals. In last year’s (still popular) blog post on “Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick” we shared some tips for putting New [...]
Read 'Goal Tracking – New Year’s Plans' >>Archive for the ‘Leadership’ Category
Staying on track
You’ve made plans, got people on board and kicked off your project.. but as the focus turns to delivery, how do you keep the momentum going? We’ve found that much of the trick of successful project management is helping people to make clear commitments, which are visible to the entire team, and then doing everything [...]
Read 'Staying on track' >>Doug Richard talking Entrepreneurship and Collaboration
Last week I caught Doug Richard, known from Dragon’s Den, and now the School for Start ups, at The Centre for Creative Collaboration. He was talking about Entrepreneurship and creativity. I’m sharing what he said here because the majority of Milestone Planner users are innovative, entrepreneurial businesses. “The first thing is: There is a presumption [...]
Read 'Doug Richard talking Entrepreneurship and Collaboration' >>Fons Trompenaar on Innovation at Orange Live
Sometimes it takes a night’s sleep to digest a talk. Fons Trompenaars session yesterday here at Orange Live 10 was one such talk. It provoked a huge deal of discussion and argument in the Blogger’s room afterwards, and with a title like “riding the whirlwind, creating a culture of innovation,” it’s probably not hard to [...]
Read 'Fons Trompenaar on Innovation at Orange Live' >>From Computer Networks to Human Networks
I’m in Amsterdam, at Orange Business Live 2010 – An event Orange Business Services runs each year, looking at the challenges and changes in the communications space. At the pre-event evening event one thing that really struck me was the value in networking and networks. Not just the global data networks that have been built [...]
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