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Thinking and Doing
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Loading ...It is that time of year for me. It is coming up to my birthday, again, which always seems to trigger a time of introspection and reflection. Maybe it is kicked off by that irrational discomfort of a digit shifting in the ominous number that denotes my age these days.
Who’s are you? The Question of stolen (bits of) identity
(click and rate it) Loading ...I was wandering the streets of London this week, in a productive way of course, when I saw a familiar face. I nodded and he nodded back. “Are you who I think you are?” I said. “Well, that very much depends on who you think I am, doesn’t it?” he said.
Setting Deadlines is Life – Part II
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...[this post follows on from Part I] When you make deadlines, make them realistic – don’t be the hopeless optimist or the dire pessimist. That isn’t as easy to do as it may sound. Research shows that people are very poor at judging how long a task will take, either best and worst case. Leave [...]
Setting Deadlines is Life – Part I
(Click and rate it!) Loading ...This month has been a month of deadlines. ‘Deadlines’ is such a strange word – the idea that you can kill a mark drawn between two points is just a little odd, but there again that is the English language for you, a little odd.
What will Enterprise 2.0 look like? Some Thoughts from Crystal Balls
(click and rate it) Loading ...The technology used in businesses is changing rapidly. The technologies we use in the office today would have been the stuff of science fiction just a few decades ago. New technologies are arriving faster than most businesses can adapt and adopt. Within this change is the potential for both increasing, and decreasing, productivity. What is [...]
Getting Started with GTD
(click and rate it) Loading ...The buzz of a new year is still in the air! With that buzz is a crowd of people making fresh starts and striving to stick to new year’s resolutions – some more recklessly made than others. A larger than usual number of friends and fellows are getting started with David Allen’s Getting Things Done, [...]
Never Loose Another Thought Again!
(click and rate it) Loading ...There is one simple habit that has revolutionised every day, since the first day that I adopted it. The habit costs almost nothing, takes very little time and reduces the mental load of today’s high-speed, high-tech life. It also increases mental productivity and creativity.
