by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 17, 2022 | Milestone Planner, Productivity
One of the great things about mid-month Friday is the 8:59 Mindshare Breakfast at Login Lounge. It’s a great way to start the day, exchanging ideas with fellow business folks over a great coffee and a tasty brioche. This month the conversation turned to the topic of...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 18, 2013 | Productivity
Citrix (the folks behind GoToMeeting) hosted a great evening of Ignite style talks about productivity last night in London. Ignite talks are 20 slides of 15 seconds each, so it is very fasted paced, and fairly brief, but a great way to get an idea...
by Benjamin Ellis | Nov 2, 2012 | Event, Productivity
I had the pleasure of listening to Khoi Tu talk about teams at the RSA in London. Khoi’s slogan is: “building a better world, one team at a time.” – which resonated with much of what we are trying to do here. His talk draws from his book:...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jul 16, 2012 | Management, Productivity
I was saddened to learn today of Stephen Covey’s death, at the age of 79, following an previous cycling accident. I had drafted this post over the weekend, and it seems fitting to post it as a tribute; our thoughts are with his friends and family. Stephen Covey...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 30, 2012 | Productivity
These are my (live) notes from Tom Chatfield’s (@TomChatfield) talk at Thinking Digital 2012. As Tom started to talk, my ears pricked up and I thought this would be interesting to many of you. The following are Tom’s thoughts (which I strongly agree with):...
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...