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When you make deadlines, make them realistic - don’t be the hopeless optimist or the dire pessimist. That isn’t as easy to do [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Setting Deadlines is Life - Part II




(click and rate this post!)Setting Deadlines is Life - Part I




(click and rate this post!)This month has been a month of deadlines. ‘Deadlines’ is such a strange word - the idea that you can kill a mark drawn between two points is just a little odd, but there again that is the English language for you, a little odd.
Preparing to Present - A Check List for Presenting at a Conference or Large Event




(click and rate this post!)Some things are too scary to plan for. No, not life insurance, public speaking. Presenting at an event or a conferences is intimidating, even for a frequent speaker. Covering your eyes and hoping it will all be OK obviously isn’t the answer, so what to do?
What will Enterprise 2.0 look like? Some Thoughts from Crystal Balls




(click and rate this post!)The technology used in businesses is changing rapidly. The technologies we use in the office today would have been the stuff of science fiction just a few decades ago. New technologies are arriving faster than most businesses can adapt and adopt. Within this change is the potential for both increasing, and decreasing, productivity. What [...]
Getting Started with GTD




(click and rate this post!)The buzz of a new year is still in the air! With that buzz is a crowd of people making fresh starts and striving to stick to new year’s resolutions - some more recklessly made than others. A larger than usual number of friends and fellows are getting started with David Allen’s Getting Things [...]
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On the way home, my thoughts turned to "what makes a good pitch?" Over the years I've been on both sides of the table, prepping the pitches and pitching businesses for funding, but also listening to company pitches with a view to investment or acquisition. As I was describing these my ever astute COO, she said "That sounds like the seven habits of highly effective pitchers", so here they are...
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Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. He blogs on productivity, communication and technology - Quite simply: WOWNDADI - Work out what needs doing and do it.
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