I’m not a fan of meetings. I know they’re essential, but they often become big time-wasters for everyone involved. I am, however, a big fan of apps that do one thing really well, and especially apps that do that and can scale up or down in the process. Less Meeting has helped me deal with […]
The following is a guest post by Travis Collier. Travis is a Commissioned Officer in the US Coast Guard and consultant–he examines how why people in organizations aren’t working well, and discovers solutions to get them working together and better. “The Ping is that little sensation that occasionally prompts me (you) to check my e-mail
The wait is over…sort of. (And I’m not talking about today’s Apple announcement, either.) Newsletter subscribers had a head-start when it came to pre-orders. And while I planned on waiting to unveil my latest work here until next week, I just couldn’t wait to share details of my new self-published eBook with all of you.
This a guest post by Dallon Christensen. Dallon is the direct of accounting and finance and chief financial officer of Evolution Power Tools in Davenport, Iowa. Dallon has fallen off the Getting Things Done wagon more times than he can remember while organizing his roles as devoted husband, father, friend, co-worker, and blogger. Dallon is
I’ve been a big fan of Todd Henry’s work for a while. His first book, The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment’s Notice has a cherished spot on my paper-based book shelving area, and he recently released its follow-up, Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Every Day. And he’s delivered another winner with
The following is a guest post by Tim Sprosen. Tim is a medical researcher at the University of Oxford and a long time GTDer. He writes about productivity at timsprosen.com focusing on the higher-horizons and how they can add meaning, passion and purpose to our daily lives. Are you chasing the rainbow? As a kid
There are certain things that I do when I post a piece that are easy. One thing is finding an image at SXC.HU and attributing it accordingly thanks to a TextExpander snippet I’ve got prepared in advance that allows me to simply fill in the URL and creator of the image. Another is socially sharing
This is a guest post by Euan Semple. Euan is an international speaker, author of Organizations Don’t Tweet – People Do, and is one of the few people in the world who can turn the complex world of the social web into something we can understand and at the same time learn how to get
This week on Mikes on Mics, Schechter and I welcomed guest Shawn Blanc to the show. The topic was focus, and it really got me to thinking about a few things (which is funny, considering that Shawn said that a lot of his ideas for his posts come from his thoughts on his members-only “near
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