Applied Research in a World of Increasing Time Demands
A client of mine shared a common story that I have heard many times. She spent hours entering all her contact information into an electronic device only to have the device die with all the information within it lost forever. While this may seem to be a good one to blame on the device, the …
The email in-box is nothing more than a mouth. Huh? Well, the mouth is an ideal capture point. It allows for temporary storage of a certain amount of food, and performs its function perfectly as a “staging area” for the process of digestion, and sending essential nutrition to the rest of the body. When food …
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 …
Back in the old days it was easy. The unproductive guy was the one who still had a bunch of bricks sitting in a pile waiting to be assembled into a wall, while the productive guy was finished long before, and was onto the next task of digging the trench. Productivity was easily measured by …
One of the easiest ways to check whether or not someone is at a higher belt level is to observe carefully how they handle email. What do they have in their in-box? Is the number of emails always kept small? Does email get sent to them that they never reply to? Does email routinely get …
During the recent pilot of NewHabits-NewGoals (the course built on the concepts of 2Time), it struck me that every professional has their own home-grown time management system. They developed it in a trial-and-error fashion, mostly starting when they were in their early teens, and picking up bits and pieces from people they admired along the …
As a consulting professional, I have tracked the way I use my time for years. One of the greatest innovations I have come across in the past year is a program called SnapLogger, which takes screen-shots every few minutes as long as the user is active in Windows. It is an excellent program. Now, if …
One of the more difficult habits to break when using Outlook is hard to change because of how the program is designed. Here is the typical scenario: Several pieces of email come into the Outlook in-box Each of them share a single characteristic, in that they require about ten minutes of work They have nothing …
One of the messages of 2Time is a difficult one – that users who are not technologically savvy are choosing to limit their productivity. It might not be obvious as to why this is the case, but one of the major reasons has to do with portability. A user who is unable to travel with …
I am reading the #1 New York Times Best Seller – The Four Hour Work Week and finding it quite entertaining. As someone who lives in Jamaica, it would seem that I am living the author’s dream to some extent! More on this later, to be sure. One immediate benefit this book has brought me …