About The Blogger
Internet engineer, turned business exec and developing psychologist Benjamin Ellis is passionate about technology that solves human problems, and humans that solve technology problems. Benjamin blogs about productivity, communication and technology in the context of business.
The Month that was January – Top 10 posts
Time for the regular “end of month” summary post, all be it a few days into February. The last couple of months have been packed with meeting brilliant new people, for all sorts of different reasons. Photographers, speakers, designers and others have all given me new perspectives and a stronger appreciation of their talents, and [...]
Setting Deadlines is Life – Part II
[this post follows on from Part I] When you make deadlines, make them realistic – don’t be the hopeless optimist or the dire pessimist. That isn’t as easy to do as it may sound. Research shows that people are very poor at judging how long a task will take, either best and worst case. Leave [...]
Setting Deadlines is Life – Part I
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
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
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 is [...]
Getting Started with GTD
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 Done, [...]
A Sense of History
I was stirred by a recent post about personal history on Stephen’s Adversity University. I didn’t get on with history at school. I had great teachers, but I didn’t have a head for names and places. That puts a bit of a damper on being good at it. This was compounded by my belief that [...]
