I am dealing with some particularly frustrating bureaucracy and broken processes at the moment that I have no direct control over, so allow me to vent. Given that any system can produce
Category Archives: Productivity
Do Your Project Teams Suffer From Chronic Media Multitasking?
More evidence for the benefit of war rooms and the elimination of distractions from your project team….
“There’s no question whatsoever that multitasking, especially among those who do it the most, is at the very least ineffective; and at the worst harmful.” Clifford Nass, Thomas M. Storke Professor – Stanford University
Do You Project Manage Your Life?
Project managers are the worst to manage.? You need a system for yourself. Andrew Meyer left a comment on Project Manager Interview Questions recently. ?I started to leave a reply and realized this would be a great post. ?Here is Andrew’s comment, the context is related to what to ask ?candidates in an interview for […]
The Lazy Project Manager
THE ART OF PRODUCTIVE LAZINESS
‘Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.’ Robert Heinlein (1907 – 1988)
Time Management in Today’s World
So, I think of writing here everyday and remember promising myself that I will write 2 articles a month. I haven’t. I come back to the site and see articles everywhere and I am lost. Amidst so much information am not sure what I can write about. I am far from being an expert on […]
Knowledge Jolt with Jack
Jack Vinson over at Knowledge Jolt with Jack did a post about my post on multitasking yesterday. It’s good to know someone agrees with me and I’m not completely off my rocker! I remember an interview I had once where I was asked about multitasking, and the interviewer was floored when I said I avoid […]
Multi – tasking, Covey and TOC
Multi-tasking is a subject I’m passionate about. Passionate about NOT doing actually, whenever possible. Let me start by identifying two types of multi-tasking, bad and required. Bad multi-tasking is working on two things simultaneously, or switching between things because something else is suddenly urgent, but not important enough to justify dropping everything you are working […]
