Category Archives: Productivity

Podcast – Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions and High Performance

Multitasking is worse than a myth; it is a fraud and a thief. Other lessons learned

This podcast is 7 minutes 24 seconds long. You can read the text here.

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Multitasking, Too Much Information, Interruptions, and High Performance

Last week I ran into a little book (it really is little, 135 pages in a 5″ x 7″ format – very easy on the hand and eye), The Myth of Multitasking: How “Doing It All” Gets Nothing Done by … Continue reading

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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information – Podcast

Seize time of your own by gaining control over Too Much Information.

The podcast is 5 minutes 10 seconds long. This is a podcast based on an earlier blog entry of the same title.

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Seize Your Time – gaining control over Too Much Information

I have written a number of other postings about time management.  I always start off with the true, but worn, observation that time is the one element of business (life, too) that can not be purchased, borrowed, or inventoried. It … Continue reading

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Seize Your Time: the breakthrough first step in time management

A breakthrough first step in time management to become a more effective manager. PODCAST

The podcast is 6 minutes 14 seconds long. Transcript of the podcast (download PDF)

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Seizing Your Time – the first step in time management

There are lots of books, blogs and gurus on the topic of time management. Many have very good advice. This is no surprise since, as we have noted (as plenty of others have), time is the one resource you can … Continue reading

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Meetings – The Drama Model

Third in a series on meetings. Think of meetings as dramas. Meetings should follow the basic shape of almost all dramas and movies. Act One sets the scene and hooks us into the action, introduces the characters, tells us what … Continue reading

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Meetings – First – Don’t Have Them

Second in a series on meetings: No matter where you are in the food chain, meetings are critical to success as a manager. It is important to know how to initiate, lead, and participate in meetings. This series of Management … Continue reading

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Meetings – Understanding The Shapes and Roles

First in a series. No matter where you are in the food chain, meetings are critical to success as a manager. It is important to know how to initiate, lead, and participate in meetings. This series of Management Notes on … Continue reading

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Time, the only resource you can’t buy more of, nor outsource

The supply of time is completely inelastic. This fact must be a central focus for every manager. The only time you have is passing by now, never to be seen again, nor squirreled away for future use. To be an … Continue reading

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