by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 27, 2011 | Management, Milestone Planner, Productivity
Work can take us to some odd places, and put us in front of interesting sights. Recently I ended up in Crawley, and as I walked along the high street, a window display that was taking shape caught my eye. I’d been watching for several minutes before I thought to...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 17, 2010 | Leadership, Management
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 19, 2010 | Leadership, Management
Outcome-based planning seems to attract a different type of leader. I had the opportunity to catch up with a few of our biggest Milestone Planner advocates on the phone today. I always come away from those discussions energised – they are a very different crew...
by Caalie | May 19, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 18, 2010 | Management, Milestone Planner
I read these 10 questions on the Priority Attitudes blog. The post is from an article written by Richard Maybury’s colleague, Paul Stacey and is worth clicking through to read. I’ve met Richard and some of his clients, so I know that he gets results. Paul...
by Benjamin Ellis | Dec 21, 2009 | Management, Milestone Planner
Last week I shared some thoughts at MediaCamp London #3, which seem good to offer up here. Coffee in hand, I talked through the things I’ve discovered about the management of knowledge-driven and creative businesses over this past decade. I can’t say that...
