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Q&A: David Allen's Path to Bliss
The productivity guru explains why time management is a delusion, happiness is a fad, and how life's little details create very big problems. What's so special about GTD? I encourage people to give respect to everything: the little stuff,...
Tags: Productivity, Happiness, Productivity Guru, Robert Landon, Business, time management, BNET Feature
Articles 2007-02-08

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Bruce Lee's 5 Rules for Personal Productivity
Famed martial artist and actor Bruce Lee was undoubtedly an icon and a trailblazer. But did you know he was also a personal productivity guru? Well, maybe not exactly. But The Positivity Blog notes that several of his fundamental beliefs for life can translate pretty well into...
Tags: Productivity, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-05-15
Jim Loehr: Train for Success Like a Pro Athlete
Forget time management. According to productivity guru Jim Loehr, energy is the ultimate renewable resource, and managing it correctly could be the key to increasing your human capital. At least that’s the philosophy of Jim Loehr, a productivity guru and performance psychologist with the...
Tags: Training, Energy, MoneyWatch, Workforce Management, Human Capital, Training And Certification, Human Resources, Jim Loehr, Human Performance Institute, Power of Full Engagement, Power of Story, Multitasking, Twitter, Facebook, Michelle V. Rafter
Articles 2009-07-27
Expert Tips On How To Manage Your Time, Increase Your Productivity And Earn More Money
Learning how to manage your time to increase your effective work time will lead to increasing your productivity and this, in turn, will lead to you earning more money. The latter is provided that your productivity relates to money-earning activities and not you simply being busy. This paper explains three...
Tags: Productivity, ArticlesBase, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2008-03-03
The bare necessities of lean: 10 things your lean guru may not tell you about making just-in-time work.
The current intense interest in lean manufacturing represents a validation of industrial engineering principles and practice. However, as with many popular management movements, there is a lot of misinformation and confusion regarding the application of lean principles. As the lean manufacturing message spreads, it becomes ...
Tags: analysis, JIT, Manufacturing, technique, Toyota Motor Corp., workplace
Research articles 2003-08-01
Jerry Seinfeld, Productivity Guru
To become a huge star by creating a show about nothing, you have to know a thing or two about personal motivation. What works best for Seinfeld, it seems, is putting up a wall-sized, year-long calendar so that you can get the satisfaction of—and motivation from—crossing off days in which...
Tags: Time-Savers, Leadership, David Goldenberg, Jerry Seinfeld, motivation
Blog posts 2007-07-24
GTD: Creepy Cult or Perfect Approach to Productivity?
I was chatting with a colleague the other day about time and task management. When I mentioned David Allen's Getting Things Done approach, he surprised me by shuddering and saying, "Ugh, that cult thing." Huh? Cult? Here I was thinking GTD was a pretty good (okay, perhaps...
Tags: Friend, GTD, Strategy, Management, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-08-20
43 Folders and Merlin Mann's Makeover
Productivity guru Merlin Mann is taking his well-known blog, 43 Folders, in a new direction. His new focus? How people can clear space, both figuratively and literally, to be creative and finish things they care about. by CC Holland
Tags: Productivity, Blogging, Professional Development, Internet, Career, CC Holland
Blog posts 2008-09-30
The Denver Post Al Lewis Column.
By Al Lewis, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 4--If you'd like to hear a sales pitch from productivity guru Eliyahu Goldratt, you must pay him for $595 a seminar. There, you'll be hawked books, CDs and videos from $8.95...
Tags: consultant, consulting, General Motors Corp., Outsourcing, theory
Research articles 2004-05-04
Vedanta Institute UK: 'Go-Getters Guru' Tells UK Business - Find Peace in Work.
LONDON, May 24 /PRNewswire/ -- - Swami Parthasarathy, Recently Acclaimed in Businessweek and the New York Post for his Pioneering Work on Ancient Wisdom in Modern Business, presents the Art of Self Management to UK and European Executives, June 1 - 22. ...
Tags: New York Post
Research articles 2007-05-24
Making It All Work by David Allen | Book Brief
So much to do, so little time! Time management and productivity guru, David Allen takes his bestselling book, Getting Things Done, to new heights with Making It All Work. In this video, he illustrates how to gain control of your to-do list and offers tips for finding focus...
Tags: Time Management, Corporate Communications, Productivity, Marketing, Business Book Brief, David Allen
Videos 2009-02-10
Task Master: Why Important is Better Than Urgent
I'm usually pretty good at getting to "Important" tasks every day. These are the high level, strategic  actions you need to move your company or your career forward.  Charting a marketing strategy for a new product, for example. Problem is, I'm easily distracted by tasks that come...
Tags: Task, E-mail, Professional Development, Internet, Microsoft Outlook, Marketing Research, Online Communications, Career, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2009-02-20
Our Democratic Right to Vacation
Although you need to consider the source of budget-travel guru Arthur Frommer's blog post, boldly titled An increase in the amount of vacation time is unfinished business of our democracy," he does raise some interesting arguments from a quality-of-life perspective. But what about the business perspective? The...
Tags: Vacation, Nicole Solis
Blog posts 2007-07-13
What Is Crowdsourcing?
Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea. The basic idea is to tap into the collective intelligence of the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider. ...
Tags: NetFlix Inc., E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co., Amazon.com Inc., Collective Wisdom, BNET Briefing, Software, Procter & Gamble Co., Weak Spots Crowds, Jennifer Alsever, iStockphoto.com, Crowdsourcing
Articles 2007-03-07
Get a Free Issue of Productive Magazine
Seemingly tailor-made for Business Hacks readers, Productive Magazine offers various productivity tips culled from the blogosphere. Um, kind of like we do, which begs the question: Who needs a magazine? We'll leave that for you to decide, as the first issue is free to check out [PDF link]. ...
Tags: Blog, Magazine, PM, Blogging, Internet, Rick Broida
Blog posts 2008-11-24
World's Worst Elevator Pitches
A couple of days ago, in the post "Why Your Elevator Pitch Stinks," I asked you readers to send me some elevator pitches to see if we could improve them.  I'll start by posting the two worst because they're instructive of exactly what NOT to do. ...
Tags: Customer Service, Performance, Consulting, Performance Management, Outsourcing, Product Marketing, Human Capital, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-12-12
5 Ways To Make Benefit Lists Memorable
"Customers buy benefits, not features." So goes the refrain, but many sales reps and almost all marketeers are challenged when it comes to differentiating between the two.  Actually, it's easy.  A "feature" is something that the product or service "does"; a "benefit" is...
Tags: Benefits, Human Resources, Geoffrey James
Blog posts 2008-12-16
How to Deal with Information Overload
Too much work. Too much information. Too much everything! Web Worker Daily feels your pain and tries to ease it with 21 tips for overcoming information overload. Here's a sampling: Disconnect once a day. In your time map, have a certain period where you’re disconnected. It’ll take some getting used to, but after...
Tags: Web Worker Daily, Rick Broida, Information, Tip
Blog posts 2007-08-09
Your Company's Secret Change Agents
The Idea in Brief Some business problems--lackluster performance, escalating costs, interdepartmental conflict--persist no matter how hard companies try to fix them. Why? Most leaders impose top-down change tactics--importing outside experts or "best" practices, which never...
Tags: Agent, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Investment Team, Jerry Sternin, Management, Managing Teams, Problem, Richard Tanner Pascale, Strategy, Team, Team Management
Articles 2008-02-13
Sutton: Calculate Your "Total Cost of Jerks"
The Find: If you really want to motivate yourself and your company to root out jerks and their productivity and creativity sucking behavior, one business guru suggest you calculate your TCJ: total cost of jerks. The Source: An article entitled "Building the Civilized Workplace" by No Asshole...
Tags: Jerk, Bob Sutton, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jessica Stillman
Blog posts 2008-07-28
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