Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No. Everyone from CEOs to front-line managers squander their most valuable resource -- time -- like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our opportunities to create real value for the organization are...
The start up phase of any business is a particularly fragile one. The success or failure of the business, or the distance between start up and wealth building, hangs in the balance daily. However, the death knell rarely tolls on the big mistakes, or making a wrong decision. Instead, it...
Most time management coaches start with vision, mission, and strategy before moving on to objectives and work. An alternative route is to start with what's in people's heads and piled on their desks, and overflowing from their in-boxes. In that sense it starts from the bottom up. Between the reason...
Many people believe that working from home (sometimes known as “telecommuting” or “teleworking”) is the ideal employment option. And for many it is. It frees them from having to battle commuter traffic and crowds, allows them to get their work done without the interruptions of a busy office, and leaves...
The Idea in Brief Organizations are demanding ever-higher performance from their workforces. People are trying to comply, but the usual method--putting in longer hours--has backfired. They're getting exhausted, disengaged, and sick. And they're defecting to healthier job...
In theory, when you work in an organization, systems and processes are in place to help you manage your work. However, often it is these very systems and processes that drive people out of organizational contexts and into freelance work.The freelance world, on the other hand, is defined by its...
Many entrepreneurs and executives play the role of Chief Cook and Bottle Washer on the job. They feel that it is their responsibility to do everything and anything to expand their business. Although this is often appropriate in start-ups, there comes a time when the CC&BW approach to running the...
David Allen's Getting Things Done time-management system is based on some pretty esoteric concepts ("knowledge work," "distributed cognition," the "ready state" of martial arts, and so on), but in actual practice it's cheap and very much do-it-yourself. Clear the Decks GOAL: Record all your...
According to Wikipedia, "The Pareto Principle" states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes. The idea has rule-of-thumb application in many places, but it is commonly misused. For example, it is a misuse to state that a solution to a problem "Fits the...
One of the things that seem to cause havoc with businesses leaders is time management. People come to the office and immediately things begin to hit them. A new pile of mail on the desk needing attention, voice mail loaded up with calls to be returned, e-mails piled up from...
The trouble with working online is that the email is always just a click or two away at any time during the working day. If you were running an offline business from home, the day would be centred away from the computer and you would have to make a conscious...
Time management is critical for saving people from headaches, heartaches, and other types of pressures. When people manage their time accordingly, they seem to function well in society and at home. The flood of data that passes people each day via the Internet has changed the entire outlook of time...
Everyday, in life, we are bombarded with 101 tasks that are waiting for us to resolve it. This is especially true when we are involved in internet marketing where we had to check emails, respond to customer queries, set up product page.. etc...etc.. The list goes on... The key to...
Do you have piles of paper stacked up on your desk, your bookcase, or even the floor? Do you have trouble finding important files? Is you desk covered with all sorts of different documents, notes, and memos? Do you have more than fifty "old" emails in your Inbox? The practice...
Drifting into trivia is a phrase coined by Peter Drucker and describes the practice of drifting from important and valuable tasks into less important tasks. There are many opportunities during each day for us to drift into trivia: remembering a phone call we need to make, coming across a piece...
There was a time when business moved at a much slower pace than it does today. There was also a time before "Downsizing" when organizations had more people - sometimes more than enough people - to complete all of the workload within their companies. Before the advent of e-mail, voice-mail,...
Tellabs designs, develops, deploys, and supports wireless and wireline network solutions. Tellabs employees had no integration between their e-mail and calendar and faced difficulties in accessing their e-mail from remote locations. In response, Tellabs deployed a new communications solution featuring Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003,...
Technology has increased the sense of urgency. An overnight letter cries for more immediate attention than something sent bulk rate or even first class, a fax outshouts an overnight letter, and e-mail outscreams them all. But the delivery system has no bearing on the importance of the content; that e-mail...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This column includes some observations from my recent participation at the Fourth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy in Scotland, and visits to LearnDirect and Careers Scotland. The outcomes of the Symposium and the latter two major initiatives directly link to...
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