We’ve all been there! We have just hit ‘Send’ and realised we forgot to attach the file, addressed it to the wrong ‘Peter Smith’, remembered too late that we did not include an important point, or even – God forbid – had second thoughts about sending the mail at all, especially [...]
Looking for Lookout? Want to make it work with Outlook 2007? My thanks to Frank Taylor over at vmware for raising my awareness of this fix. […]
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. […]
You might find this useful if you are involved any way in Expectation Management, Sales, Promotion, Pricing, Service Definition, Influencing the decisions of others and Overcoming Procrastination. […]
New research by Bill Heil and Mikolaj Piskorski over at Harvard Business School suggests that the old 80/20 rule is alive and well on Twitter - They surveyed 300,542 users, during May 2009 and found, among other things that: 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content. [...]
Let’s face it, every now and again we get a mail that doesn’t fit into the classic decision making format. Sometimes a mail hits us and we do a Homer D’Oh! , we want to keep it ‘Just in case’ BUT we don’t want to have an inbox cluttered with incompletions and ‘one-day-I-may-look-at-this’ stuff [...]
Wow! Today I have just seen the future! Email is about 40 years old right now – and today it looks it! Google Wave could be the future…. […]
Sometimes it can be helpful to show week numbers in your Outlook mini calendar / date navigator. Bear in mind, though, that the Microsoft weeks run from the start of January, so if your business uses a different month to start the year and identify subsequent weeks, this functionality will [...]
A lot of people ask me how I got my Outlook calendar to show full 'day / date / month / year' information as opposed to just 'date / month' information. Here’s how I did it: It is important to point out that tThese settings reside in Windows and not [...]
Thanks to those who called, emailed and posted here alerting me to my being quoted in Mark Hunter's piece in The Times Business section yesterday. It was probably my fault that my comments on bulging in boxes and procrastination were confused. I will revisit my notes of this conversation and issue [...]
