Anyone listening to some ‘Expert’ speakers or to a work colleague injecting a little motivation-juice into a Team Meeting would be forgiven for thinking that Thomas Edison invented the electric light bulb. He didn’t of course. The carbon filament incandescent electric lamp was invented by the Englishman Sir Joseph Wilson [...]
A big part of working smarter and more proactively is being willing to invest the productive overhead where it belongs – at the point of creation – so we can execute excellently at the point of delivery at some pre-determined time in the future. […]
Never choose fads over fundamentals. I have been engaged in some heavy techie talk recently around productivity, priority and performance issues. I’m no Luddite but I am slightly concerned. Sometimes fads, whether gadgets, gimmicks, apps or hacks – especially in the arena of productivity and performance can cloud simple truths. [...]
‘The goal is not to work smarter – the goal is to work less and integrate work more successfully into the rest of our life’ Richard Maybury A handful of questions to remind you of some critical elements of Best Practice workload planning and management. What elements are you using? Every worthwhile [...]
I am excited and frightened scared-stiff at the prospect of presenting 20 PowerPoint slides for 20 seconds each to a group of people I don’t know in Guildford following a recent conversation with Simon Strong from Human Zoo . Simon says ‘Say what you need to say in six minutes and [...]
I will shortly be writing more fully on some 'New Year' insights and hindsights but for now I just want to clarify one point. This year, like every other year, will be a 525,600 minute marathon, not a sprint. Yes, it is vital to start strong. Yes, it is vital - nay critical [...]
My friend, strategist and the Thought Leader behind Genesis Management Consulting, Simon Gifford, pointed me to this HBR article the other day. I like a lot of the material Ron Ashkenas writes. He’s pretty focused on the practicalities of delivering critical results within demanding workloads when he focuses on his ‘Time Management’, ‘Productivity’ [...]
Continuing an ad-hoc series of expressions from my speaking, training and coaching services that clients call ‘Mayburyisms’. ‘Too late is too easy when we are too free with our time’ – Richard Maybury How often do you deliver a critical result by the skin of your teeth because others did [...]
Are you ever annoyed or frustrated that your previous productivity with Microsoft Office 2003 is hampered as you work out how to do things in Office 2007 or 2010 that you did instinctively in Office 2003? …. Especially when you are working with Word, Excel or PowerPoint commands that you don’t [...]
Very few Business Networking meetings make it as a High Priority meeting in my Outlook Calendar. The excellent Shipley’s Godalming Breakfast Club does though – every month. The Partners and team at Shipleys provide an excellent resource for businesses like mine based around the Godalming and Guildford area of Surrey. It [...]
