As do all of the others in this ten business commandments list.
I’m going to be taking part in a discussion and mini workshop on productivity and creativity in Bristol on the 20th of July. My fellow panel members are Ben Tomlinson from Poke, Laura Marshall from Icon Films and Ben Heald from Sift – an interesting bunch with some cool creative stuff under their belts. I’m quite looking forward to a good old debate on how we all make time and get focused on the work most of us love doing, the creative and making stuff.
After the panel, I’m going to share some of the things I’ve learnt over the years from working in and with creative companies. I’ll hopefully pull out some of the blocks that get in the way of ‘doing’ and offer a few hints and tips to take away.
More here.
“I stopped holding ‘retreats’ as that’s a step backwards. I instead hold ‘advances’ for my teams.”
Silvia Ferrell-Jones
On Saturday, I found myself on stage in front of more than 200 people. Well, it wasn’t like I was just transformed there, there had been a bit of planning beforehand.
The event was Interesting 2011, and me and Emily with our Stanley James Press hats on, and with the support of People Who Do, had decided we would get everyone bookbinding to start the day. Seemed like a good thing for People Who Do to fund, seeing as we are all about people doing stuff – or less yammering, more hammering.
Anyway, it went really well, pretty much everybody made a notebook out of the kit’s we’d brought along. And we saw plenty of people using them throughout the day.
Here’s a short film about the experiment.
