Articles about Productivity

Being at or near the the top of your organization, everyone wants a piece of you. So they send you e-mail. It makes you feel important. Don’t you love it? Really? Then, please take some of mine! Over 100 real … Continue reading →

My name is Stever Robbins, and I’m here to confess: I’m an overwhelm wimp. Give me more than three things to handle at once and pop, my head explodes. It’s not just me—everyone seems to be suffering from daily overwhelm. … Continue reading →

Can you write a refresher on critical thinking? We business leaders so like to believe that we can think well, but we don’t. Only one in seven even reaches the top 10 percent of quality thinkers.1 The rest of us … Continue reading →

Tim Sanders wrote a blog entry that references a Business Week article on information overload I commented on last week. The writer suggests that information overload might be good. There might be some valuable information, and besides, young people can … Continue reading →

Sometimes decisions aren’t worth the cost of deciding Click to hear the original Get-it-Done Guy podcast. [Subscribe at iTunes (search for "Get It Done Guy") or http://GetItDone.QuickAndDirtyTips.com] This article is a reprint of an episode of my new podcast. You … Continue reading →

This TO DO Sheet Template is a form I’ve found useful in categorizing the urgent, the important, and the let’s-not-do-that-shall-we? Continue reading →

Want to get more done in your life? Use focus time. Use intense focus time. Here’s how… Continue reading →

One way to keep on top of your TO DO lists is to use two of them… Continue reading →