by Benjamin Ellis | May 28, 2012 | Announcements, 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 | 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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 8, 2010 | Announcements, Milestone Planner, planning
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...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jun 28, 2010 | Leadership, Milestone Planner
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...
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...
