Info, info, info, info, info, info, info, info….everywhere but not a drop to think? Are you bobbing, almost drowning, in a sea of information? Take this article, why are you reading it? Don’t go away just yet, I have my own … More
Make sure this month is November not KNOWvember! Section A: Here is a management knowledge quiz: How many management courses have you taken this year? How many management blog post have you read? How many management books have your read? … More
Scott H Young is one of the best productivy bloggers out there, and recently he shared a great lifehack about the popular “getting things done” system that many of we Slacker Managers frequently use. Scott actually hacked this hack, with … More
Are you ready to grab GEMO and go with it? This September, I have accelerated my accomplishments on a lot of projects and new initatives because I found GEMO.  GEMO is an acronym for Good Enough, Move On. It helps … More
Where does your weekend go? Are you a Saturday Slacker? Or a Sunday Slacker? I encourage you to look at how you spend your weekend. Do you use the weekend to get away from work – rest and recovery? Do … More
Never Lose A Thought Again About how long do you think something stays in short-term memory? 15 – 20 seconds. In other words, if you don’t do something with a thought, you lose it in less than 30 seconds. So … More
Tasks For GTD Titans! From Part 1, you’ll remember that I end up with only two buckets (Calendar and Tasks) for all my action items:. If it doesn’t have to be at a specific time it ends up on the … More
Write It Down Right Now What is the most important skill in business today? The ability to rapidly get things off your mind and into a system you can trust. Why? Because the amount of information you have to deal … More
If you leave messages in your Inbox, you are insane. Okay, there I’ve said it. Every message left in your Inbox adds psychic weight to you. And this weight can be awfully heavy over time. On average, information workers (that’s … More
Before I started my Getting Things Done practice I had some vague ideas about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to go with it. I had not done any serious thinking about priorities or … More
“Do you have a pen I can borrow?” At a recent ASTD conference session, not one but two people around me asked this question. Here we were, about to hear one of the world’s experts in our field and two … More
My laptop was running slow (as usual) and I was cursing Microsoft – usual too :) . I tried various tweaks including turning off fancy graphics and deleting temporary files. Final step – defragment the disk. This is where i … More
I’m totally on the GTD prowl right now. I hath fully fallen from the vaunted GTD wagon in recent days and it is taking a toll on me. Unread emails: 146 from as far back as three weeks ago; an … More
If you missed out on getting one of my MindMeister invitations the other day, here’s a second chance. Over at Behind The Glasses, Grigor is giving away 20 more MindMeister invites AND he’s offering interested bloggers a chance to participate … More
