Productivity Pointer – Are you doing the most important thing now?

January 18, 2010

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. – Doris Lessing What’s the most important thing you could be doing with your time right now? (Other than reading this post of course.) Are you doing it? We often gravitate toward the easy things when it’s time [...]

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Find Who Really Sent an E-mail

January 14, 2010

Have you ever received an e-mail that looks real but you weren’t quite sure?  If so, don’t open it.  Lately I’ve received dozens of messages that look like they’re from our IT support department.  They looked so convincing that I almost opened the first one.  Fortunately I didn’t do it. Spammers are a clever bunch [...]

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Productivity Pointer – Shorten Your One-on-One Meetings

January 12, 2010

Even a stopped clock is right twice every day. After some years it can boast of a long series of successes. – Ebner-Eschenbach Do you find yourself wasting time in one-on-one meetings that go on too long? Our mothers taught us to be polite to guests, which includes not asking them to leave. And many [...]

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Interview with Chuck Frey of InnovationTools.com

January 5, 2010

Things have been a little quite here in WorkloadMaster land over the holidays. I took a trip to Texas to visit family which caused me to take a break from posting. But I’ve been busy behind the scenes. Between the holidays I had an opportunity to interview Chuck Frey, publisher of InnovationTools.com. Visit The On [...]

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Unique Clock Shows Your Place In Time

January 2, 2010

Happy New Year! I just received a link to a very interesting clock that I thought I’d share. I like it because it give you a very clear visual representation of the passage of time and our place in it. The more I look at it the more value I see in it.  In one [...]

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Productivity Pointer – Reduce That Clutter

December 28, 2009

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? – Laurence J. Peter A colleague once said that clutter is the result of unmade decisions. Look around you at the clutter in your office or home and ask yourself what you should do with it. [...]

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Myth of Multitasking

December 25, 2009

Merry Christmas! I promised to take this week off, but I just found this article from Scientific American about multitasking and had to share it. Plus I needed an excuse to try out this new app that gives me the ability to post from my Blackberry. Here’s the link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=multitasking-mind. See you after the holiday. [...]

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Productivity Pointer – Unplug for the holidays

December 21, 2009

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein Recently at a very nice restaurant I observed a young gentleman pecking away at his iPhone. He did this while sitting at the bar with a friend and later throughout dinner…while he was eating. I couldn’t help but thinking that [...]

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LinksNet – The Answer to Business Networking Hell

December 18, 2009

I’m not talking about computer networking here.  I mean the kind where you meet people face to face.   Those local networking  functions where you’re herded into a room to  drift around listening to everyone rehearse their “elevator speech.”  I don’t know about you, but I find this painful. If you need to meet new local [...]

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Productivity Pointer – Be Systematic and Free Your Mind

December 14, 2009

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. -Gustave Flaubert I often hear people say imposing a system on their work will stifle their creativity. But the opposite is true. Having a system for handling routine tasks takes the thinking out of it which frees [...]

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