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Productivity For Managers: If Your Staff Looks Busy All Of The Time, Something Is Probably Wrong

08.26.2013 Business

This one is for managers and supervisors. Here’s a simple test that may be revealing: when you walk around, do the people you manage ALWAYS look busy? Even on a factory floor there are pauses, lulls, and interruptions. In the cube farms of the modern office (which I detest), real work isn’t accomplished by the […]

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“I Use Antlers In All Of My Decorating”—Interior Design Is More Than Prettying Things Up

08.05.2013 GTD

I am surprised at how many people who strongly believe that the design of their technology products, software, and applications are of vital importance and yet don’t seem to care at all about the places where they live and work. They trumpet the importance of Product Design, but seem to think that Interior Design is […]

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Simple Productivity Task Of The Day: Talk To Yourself

07.29.2013 GTD

A few weeks back we had a carpenter doing work in the house. He was quite a character. He was nice enough, but the man kept a steady stream of talking to himself going the entire time he was there. It bugged the hell out of our contractor, but I found it hilarious. It was […]

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Minimalism And Clutter

05.20.2013 GTD

Minimalism can be a beautiful thing. Having only what you need, and having those things be beautiful, is an extremely attractive idea to me. Clutter is another thing all together. One can have only the things that one needs, but they can be jumbled, chaotic, and messy. Clutter is the arrangement of things, not the […]

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Stop What You’re Doing And Forget Your Plans

03.11.2013 GTD

A while back I was the Director of Marketing at a company that designed and sold calendar and contact management software. I spent a lot of time thinking about schedules and scheduling. The staff talked endlessly about the subject. We talked with customers and people who we hoped would be customers. We thought long and […]

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