Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
For most professionals, To-Do Lists are woefully inadequate. The reason is simple — they have gotten to the point where they have too many time demands to be handled by a single ToDo list. In the 2Time system a user has the option of selecting the level at which they mange their lists. From White …
In the last week I have been immersed in leading 2 NewHabits-NewGoals programmes here in Port of Spain, Trinidad. These courses are the fastest way for me to learn what works and what doesn’t work in the entire 2Time approach, and especially in the programmes offered to the public. One insightful question that was put …
Yet another New York Times article caught my attention. This one, written by Marci Alboher, is about Leisure Time, and it made my mind wander to the years I lived in New Jersey, the times I have visited New York to work and the life I now live in Jamaica. For cultural reasons, the importance …
I just completed the process of leading another NewHabits program in the Caribbean – this time in Port of Spain, Trinidad. I learned a great deal from the experience. It confirmed my observation that most people entering the program in the Caribbean do so at the White Belt level. Some are pure White Belts, practicing …
I have been looking at the way in which I have been doing the practice of Emptying more closely, and I am still convinced that it’s one of the most difficult practices. (For details on the practice of Emptying, see the list of Categories at the left, and click on — “Emptying.”) It’s a big …
Part 1 >> Part 2 >> Part 3 >> Part 4 >> Part 5 Leaving Jamaica for Ithaca, NY, USA (1984) At Cornell, the engineering school was one of the most difficult, and we were told that many of us wouldn’t be around at graduation four years later. (This turned out to be quite true …
The idea of an open door policy has become something like a religious belief. It has gone from a good suggestion to a badge of honor, and is now an established management dogma. The fact is that the most productive managers DO NOT have an open door policy, and this with good reason. When taken …
While there have been quite a few posts on various blogs about maintaining a Zero Inbox, or an Empty Inbox for email, I take the opposite tack and assert that an overflowing in-box of a sign of lack of productivity. This is not meant as a value judgment or a moral conclusion. Instead, it is …
While I was developing the NewHabits-NewGoals pilot offered in January, I realized that there was a difference between what I called the major components and the minor ones. In this way, the 11 components can be neatly split into 2 groups for easier explanation. The difference is easy to understand. The Major components are Capturing, …
As mentioned before, the task of comparing one worker to another in terms of their productivity has become much harder. However, the results of examining their in-box can give a good insight into how productive they are. In other words, a person who has an in-box of thousands of items is less productive than one …