The Matters Most List Chris reflects on his recent difficulty with getting his work done, and concludes that to-do lists don’t work. A To-do list is basically a collection of things you “could” do in a day. That’s all well and good, but truly, is it what you […]
When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Canterbury down here in New Zealand in the early-mid 1990s, I used mindmapping on double sheets of paper to summarize lecture notes, readings and other insights on learning materials. Thanks to the MindManager mindmapping software developed by Mindjet, […]
I am a ResultsManager Gyronix, the wonderful company behind the ResultsManager add-in for Mindjet MindManager, launched the “I am a ResultsManager” campaign, focused on helping their users become breakout stars within their companies. Professional and personal users of ResultsManager have one thing in common; they’re implementation heroes. When […]
Dave Pollard recently reflected on the lack of meaning in the information he receives, and writes: I find the vast majority of business information I receive is likewise useless and meaningless. Most of it is “best practices” or “benchmarks” — things that have presumably been proven to work […]
Thanks to the Ipswitch blog, I came across this research by the NTL Telewest Business division: A new study from NTL: Telewest shows that misuse of office technology adds almost two hours to the average British working day. About 100 minutes a day are wasted from incompetent, careless […]
Jim Murphy, fighter plane pilot turned business consultant and author, writes about the dangers of task saturation. Task saturation comes from not having enough time, tools and resources to get your mission accomplished. Essentially, it means you are overworked. Unfortunately, most people and companies wear task saturation like […]
We, the people, “they” (the experts) say, are in a post-consumption society. We have enough money for everything we need, and most of what we want … however, our most scarce resources are time and attention. How do we use all the incredible stuff available to us to […]
We, the people, “they” (the experts) say, are in a post-consumption society. We have enough money for everything we need, and most of what we want … however, our most scarce resources are time and attention. How do we use all the incredible stuff available to us to […]
Peter D from Canada, someone I’ve met through my new job, sent me this quote from the famous Peter D. The art of business is to listen to what is not being said. I’m trying! Tags: art+of+business, peter+drucker, importance+of+listening
I read a great article by Paul Graham yesterday, entitled The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn. The seven lessons were: Release Early Keep Pumping Out Features … this thought particularly stood out in light of my new job … “they will love you if you improve in […]
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