by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 28, 2013 | Leadership
I had the pleasure of listening to Daniel Pink talk at the RSA this week about sales. It was definitely a privilege – there was a 750-person waiting list, one of the largest in the RSA talk’s history – at least in part due to Daniel’s previous...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 13, 2012 | Leadership, Management
Earlier in the year I spoke at an event for the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), and some recent discussions have caused me to reflect again on how social technologies are fundamentally altering the way we do business. A study by IBM, that...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 28, 2012 | Event, Leadership, On the road
With thanks to The Big Partnership, this is their interview with me, just after I stepped off of the stage at the 2010 Like Minds event in Exeter. In short: We don’t know what we don’t know! Many businesses are obsessed with information technology....
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 20, 2012 | Knowledge Work, Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, Project Management
Look at pretty much any job specification for a project manager and you will see (in the UK at least) a requirement that candidates are PRINCE2 certified. For those not familiar with it, PRINCE2 is a UK government endorsed, project management methodology. It stands...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 28, 2012 | Knowledge Work, Leadership, Milestone Planner, Productivity
One of the phrases that sticks in my mind from the Internal Communications panel session at Social Media World Forum was from Andrew Barendrecht. Andrew talked about social in a business as a “Structured Revolution”. As a Collaboration Strategist at Apache...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 19, 2012 | Leadership, Management, Milestone Planner, Productivity
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...
