mrohde on December 5th, 2009

Regular blog readers will notice that e-mail and task managment are a common theme this blog.  As I catch up on my blog feeds this weekend I found a great post on the Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog entitled “Best Practices for Outlook 2007″ that reenforces many of the Getting Things Done concepts with tactical [...]

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mrohde on November 21st, 2008

  

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 use of a Blackberry [...]

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mrohde on October 12th, 2008

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 distraction [...]

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admin on April 14th, 2008

 
I was reviewing some of my RSS feeds this weekend and came across a timely article by Kelly Forrister at Simply GTD that discusses the topic of “Dealing with Disruptions.” I have been having a number of conversations lately on this topic since the IT world is wrought with disruptions, emergencies, and burning issues.
Kelly addresses [...]

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