I seem to spend a lot of mental effort battling between the benefits of structured versus unstructured approaches to doing things, so a 1972 essay by Jo Freeman (aka Joreen) recently caught my attention. The article was originally published in the Berkeley Journal of Sociology, and appeared in Ms. magazine a year later - you can read [...]
Read 'Freedom in Structure – Managing Work' >>For sometime we’ve been looking at the next level of planning detail in Milestone Planner: Actions. It’s very deliberately actions and not tasks or to do’s! All of us here have used various to do list tools over the years, and it almost always ends up the same way :- an unfeasibly long list of [...]
Read 'Flow From Milestones to Actions' >>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' >>I caught site of a post about managing client expectations. Lots of us have projects to implement which involve not only folks from within our organisation, but clients, suppliers, contractors from other organisations. Sometimes managing the to-ing and fro-ing of who’s doing what where and when, and what the expectations around these goals are, can [...]
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