As we manage demanding workloads, juggle multiple projects and manage competing priorities, email is always near the top of the list of productivity challenges that most of us face every day. Whilst it can be a productivity enabler, it is more often cited as the biggest contributor to information overload and the insidious destroyer [...]
Life can be a roller coaster at times. Sometimes we are just about managing to juggle our competing priorities before they become conflicting priorities. Sometimes we are squeezed right up tight against a critical deadline. Other times we feel lost, cast adrift and long for the cut and thrust of [...]
“We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.” – John Dryden Improved self-management involves changing our behaviours. Often this means breaking old habits that we ‘know’ do not serve us well. The ruthless reality, though, is that our habits (both good and bad), exert a vice-like grip [...]
There’s an 80/20 rule for software. 80% of people will use or get value from 20% of the features. Given that fact, what happens when you flip the equation around and ask: ‘What 20% more could I do or learn to be 80% more effective?’ The combination of MindManager mindmapping software [...]
A client has just asked if she could apply an Outlook Category to multiple Contacts she is importing, without having to physically categorise each contact separately. The answer is ‘Yes’ and here’s how: […]
I was speaking with one of my sons yesterday. He is in his final year at University reading Philosophy. We were discussing different approaches we can use to help us weld our purpose to our daily priorities to help us reach our goals. Part of our conversation skirted my own early morning practice [...]
Dick Harrington, former CEO of Thomson Reuters shares his 3 lessons with Tony Tjan of Cue Ball. Well worth a 3 minute read and a 30 minute reflection! Read it on Harvard Business here: http://bit.ly/18YAqz
Almost everybody has at least one boss. And the trend is for knowledge workers to have an increasing number of bosses, an increasing number of people on whose approval and appraisal they depend. […]
What do you do in bed in the morning in that half dream consciousness between awakening and planting your feet on the floor to step again into the reality of your world? […]
I get a real buzz when people send me their own practical productivity tips. Francis Clauson over at EMC, who did one of our training programme last year just sent me an email with this one, which I have implemented immediately. I recommend this tip to you wholeheartedly. […]
