Posts Tagged ‘Productivity’
The 6 New Management Imperatives by Bruce Temkin – comments
Bruce Temkin has published a free book on his blog ((experiencematters.wordpress.com)), 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 6 new imperatives: Invest in culture as a corporate asset Make listening [...]
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 productivity with the Greater Boston Business Network. This provoked me to re-read the book in [...]
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 subject line. A similar search on Youtube.com returns over 2,000 videos about time [...]
More about the High Performance Management
Key principles and practices of the 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) ((There really is no independent organization that represents "lean". Nevertheless, the Lean Institute is a great [...]
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 encompassed in formal and informal bodies of management [...]
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.
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 David Crenshaw (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco 2008). The initial chapters take up the question of humans as multitaskers. For those who need to be reassured that [...]
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.
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 is a requirement, before all else, that managers gain control over their time. In practice, I have found, this means [...]
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)
