A lot of my work recently has been dedicated to helping ambitious companies define and develop approaches to raise ‘Time management’ from an individual employee’s personal preference to a strategic organisational process. You can imagine my delight, then, when I read this headline in my January McKinsey Quarterly feed [...]
Within the maelstrom of meetings, emails and too much to do I attended a funeral for a friend last week, more a Thanksgiving really but still very sad. Nothing newsworthy there, you have probably been to a few funerals too. What makes this so impactful for me is that it [...]
I will be at the Learning Technologies Exhibition on 29th and 30th January in Olympia London. It is a great event combining 2 of my professional passions – Learning and, er – Technology. I have a few meetings lined up for both days already and if you want a 121 with [...]
I hope that, whilst you may have felt a little mad at times, you are not certifiably insane. I felt like I was going mad back in the day when I was ‘learning’ to windsurf, more of which later. Wondering why is it difficult to bridge the gap between what we ‘know’ [...]
You are juggling operational work with projects, strategy and ambitions every day. You are doing this in your professional work life and your personal life. That’s 6 dimensions of time management before you even get to differentiating between the competing priorities within each dimension and the inevitable email torrent that [...]
I had a great experience with UPS last week. It highlights practical business truths and is worth retelling here. We had to get a high priority shipment of training manuals to an international office of one of our clients. We booked the shipment, created the waybills and booked the collection [...]
I have said it many times before – and in the light of current news from various organisations, including Atos , who has already reduced the number of internal emails by 20 percent in six months, as well as recent experiences direct from some of my clients – it needs to be said again. [...]
You and I will have no choice but to develop ourselves more effectively and work much smarter on our core purposes and priorities in 2012. That’s a no-brainer. You will have a choice, however, in how you go about that critical, future-proofing work. That can be [...]
Hi all, this post has 2 purposes: To give you a suggestion on how you can track your digital procrastination – what I call ‘Structured Procrastination’ To update you on an exciting development on the tool I use to monitor this myself. So, let’s dive in or skim the surface, [...]
First off … one of my favourite one-liners on procrastination ….. wait for it ……… ‘Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? ….. Nothing!’ Now a definition by Napoleon Hill: Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what [...]
