Tag Archives: Productivity

The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments

Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog[[1]], The 6 New Management Imperatives – Leadership Skills for a Radically Changed Business Environment. Mr. Temkin sets out to define a “new set of skills” for managers. These are the … Continue reading

Posted in Book Reviews, Business structure, Functional Skills, Operations, People, Strategy/Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Getting Things Done by David Allen – a revisit

I have used David Allen’s  book, Getting Things Done: the art of stress-free productivity (Penguin: NY 2001)  both personally and with clients for a number of years. Recently I volunteered to lead a discussion of the book’s approach to personal … Continue reading

Posted in Book Reviews, Productivity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Time Management – is now the time to get beyond this distracting oxymoron?

Time management is an extremely popular topic. Is this productive? A Google search for the phrase “time management” returns the droll news that there are more than 14,900,000 responses. Amazon lists 448 books with ‘time management” in the title or … Continue reading

Posted in People, Productivity, Strategy/Planning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

More about the High Performance Management

Key principles and practices of high performance management flow from extensive practical work Toyota Production System (TPS) lean manufacturing, lean enterprise (all of this flowing from Toyota’s fifty years of innovation)[[1]], the US-based Baldrige National Quality Program “Criteria for Performance … Continue reading

Posted in | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Management Principles & Practices

The personal and functional management principles and practices that we use in business coaching originate in the best high-performance management systems in use around the world. A great deal is known about high-performance management and high-performance companies. These lessons are … Continue reading

Posted in | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

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.

Posted in Book Reviews, Podcasts, Productivity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Book Reviews, Change Management, Productivity | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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.

Posted in Podcasts, Productivity | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

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

Posted in Change Management, Productivity | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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)

Posted in Podcasts, Productivity | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment