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.
One Ends Another One Begins
It is that time of year, you know the one, where things come to an end and new things begin. It is a great time to reflect on longer term goals and longer term “what needs doing” items and actions. An interesting twist in this is focusing on what things you need to stop doing. [...]
Who’s on First?
For me, Who’s on First? by Abbott and Costello is a classic piece of script: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor4.shtml In all the confusion, it is actually a good remembering that who, what, when and where are very good questions for working out what needs doing! When asked in the right way. Simple questions that bring the clarity needed [...]
Winning battles – starting with the inbox
I’m a great believer in systems and analysis. In fact I think the whole world is one big interconnected system… But that’s a story for another day. One of the systems that is the biggest challenge to working out what needs doing and doing it is the email inbox. In most companies the email inbox [...]
