Review: The Myth of Multitasking
The Myth of Multitasking by Dave Crenshaw is a quick read that I was able to complete in a little more than an hour commuter flight. While I found the premise interesting I found that it was a bit light on content and certainly not worth the price I paid for the book. Essentially [...]
How to Create Goal Alignment with a Top-Down Approach
We are nearing the end of the year and most of us in management positions are being asked to provide our plans for next year including budgets, staffing plan, high level project identification, and numerous plans. Thought the year I try to take stock of my position consistently but we all get wrapped up in [...]
Getting Things Done On the Run
My Mobile Workspace Originally uploaded by mraditus Once of the biggest opportunities for people trying to implement a new productivity system is to plan ahead and simplify their processes to be effective anywhere they happen to be. A couple couple months ago I wrote a post about my Ubiquitous Capture System that describes my [...]
5 Simple Techniques to Maintain Focus
I frequently coach my team on techniques they can use to become more effective and one of the areas that I have found the greatest challenged is in remaining focused. Here are five simple techniques that I use to maintain focus on the critical projects and issues. Keep your work area uncluttered. Clutter becomes a [...]
Outlook Macro: Flag and Move Message to Follow-up Folder
As my readers know I follow many of the Getting Things Done methods and when it comes to e-mail I try (usually unsuccessfully) to keep my inbox uncluttered. In Outlook there is a great feature called Flags that will turn an e-mail into an item on the To-Do list without creating a task. Of course [...]
Integrating New Habits and Routines as You Shift Your Goals
Most planning and productivity systems, like Franklin Covey® and David Allen’s Getting Things Done, place a focus on establishing life goals and envisioning what we want to become. Essentially we seek our driving principles by asking “What will my perfect life look like?” Are you a great parent, spouse, employee, business owner, humanitarian, athlete, risk [...]
Fostering Urgency
In a recent blog post by Michael S. Hyatt, the President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing, he covered the topic of “Creating a Sense of Urgency”. He asserts that large companies have a hard time recognizing the need for change because they become complacent; there isn’t enough at stake until it’s too late. He [...]
Four Tips for Effective Work Travel
After traveling for business last week a couple thoughts came to mind regarding how to remain effective while on the road: Plan your work. Since there are likely extended periods that you will not be connected to the world and with proper planning you can get quite a bit of work done during those times. [...]
14 Ways to Be Greener, More Productive and Cost Efficient With Your Printer
I was reading a blog post today on Stepcase Lifehack and which provided “7 Ways to Be Greener and More Productive with your Printer” which included a list of: Keep supplies at the point of use Print in “draft” mode to save ink Keep a scratch paper tray Make your printed documents come out in [...]
Eliminating Business Card Clutter
I was impressed with the a recent article on Unclutter that ask presented the idea of replacing business card files with Evernote. While this was an interesting idea I was impressed with the simplicity of photographing a business card with my cell phone for future recall. As I have mentioned in previous entries I use [...]
