This blog post was sponsored by Adobe Document Cloud. Meetings can be the bane of our existence! A great many of them are poorly run and useless… but even the useful ones have problems. Note taking! I take copious notes in meetings. After all, in good...
A reader wrote in: I read your suggestion about the 3×5 pad and it sucks! That's because I hate paper and pen note-taking. I want something that I can carry with me anywhere on my handheld and which will also prompt me, just like a personal assistant, not something...
If you want to produce extremely high-quality work, it may be wise to find someone to help. It's hard to be objective about our own work. Almost by definition, we believe if we did it, it must be good. But yet, sometimes an objective eye can help us take our good work...
It sounds easy: my client wanted to think more strategically. isn’t that the hot buzzword? “Strategic thinking.” Oooh! Sexy. There’s only one problem: what, exactly, does it mean? You’d think we would know. But I’ve seen executive teams discuss in all seriousness what...
I spent a couple of hours today methodically unsubscribing from several years' worth of newsletters, subscriptions, etc. It's amazing how freeing it feels to see browser window after browser window saying, "Thank you, you will no longer receive these emails." I didn't...
Our organizations stifle innovation and creativity not out of maliciousness, but out of a side-effect of the way we design and run them.
Managing information overload, email overload, and divorcing technology worked well for one reader of Get-it-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More. This post contains her story.
Wow! Today's a day full of media love. An article about my book and personal productivity is featured in Investors Business Daily. A guest blog post by me is featured in the Downtown Women's Club.