Increase Visibility, an online marketing services firm, is using Central Desktop to support team communication and client tracking. A case study on the Central Desktop web site says: “With more than 300 clients, five company divisions and 15 teams, Increase Visibility needed a central hub to house all […]
My home-built system for tracking projects and actions started to die … the technology was quitting multiple times throughout the day, and it was just not working. Can you see the smoke coming out of my ears!! I did a bit of exploration and settled on using Things […]
Tony talks about the dysfunctional nature of many meetings in organizations, and proposes that the answer is to have “conversations” instead. “The best way to energize thinking is to hold conversations rather than meetings. In our personal lives, we are used to talking openly with one another, but […]
Laura Stack writes a great newsletter, not to mention her excellent books. A recent article talked about executive time management, and included this advice: “Working too many hours is demonstrably counterproductive, because it results in decreased productivity. Studies have repeatedly shown that a 60-hour work week results, on […]
I was at a meeting last week where the lead presenter threw out the names of lots of books. They were all good ones too, many of which I have on my shelf. But … it can be hard to find focused time to just read. We all […]
A Nicholas Bate gem from last week – How to Be (1) More Productive: “The real top line answer is more on the philosophy and less on the mechanics. There is no shortage of systems for getting things done. But there is a danger: the more we focus […]
Nicholas posted his Selling Tips 7 yesterday. They’re all good … all things to take to heart during selling. From a collaboration perspective, I really liked #5: “(5) Close 99% of the time for simple feedback that you are heading in the correct direction for the 1% of […]
I read this article last year, and then found it again today. Christopher paints the difference between work that’s “trivial” and work that “moves the needle.” The latter needs, well, here it is in Christopher’s words: “When I think to the tasks and things in my day that […]
I saw a tweet fly past last week about exhaustion; it said something like “exhaustion is the biggest contributor to poor performance at work.” Anyway, here’s Nicholas’s way of showing the cycle, and what to do about it: Tired… Poor decisions on well-being… Fatigued… Longer hours to solve […]
For keeping everything together and getting work done, many people use a variety of lists – a project list, a related task list, a calendar, and a series of checklists so they don’t forget important things. Apart from the calendar, Gtdagenda.com offers these capabilities in one web-based integrated […]
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