The Expedient Route Often Isn’t
Things done under pressure often backfire. That person we urgently needed to hire, the deal we really needed to make, and the strategy we didn’t …
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Productivity Boost From NOT Improving Your Productivity System
A productivity system helps us capture, organize, and plan things to do. Whether we use an electronic or paper-based system, we want it to be …
How to Pick What Next to Do
There are exactly three ways to select the next thing to do. First, we can do whatever we always do. When faced with situation A, we …
Defeating Never-Ending To Do Lists with a Permanent Marker
Let’s pretend for a moment that our to do lists were infinitely long. What if, no matter how many items we checked off, we would …
It’s Not That You Are Too Busy
Though commenting on how busy we are and how much we have to do has become a bit of a global pastime, please do not …
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Getting people to do stuff. Sheesh. That’s tough. We try asking, telling, pleading, demanding, yelling, guilting, pushing, and praying. While these methods can work in …
Too Much Flour
You cannot fit 20 pounds of flour in a 2.5 kilo sac. Just can’t do it. You also cannot fit everything that you could do …