It’s a four-letter word. A bad ‘un. So awful is this word that its use has been de facto banished from organizational discourse. And yet the feeling this word describes is probably the biggest barrier there is to getting game-changing things done. It lurks in every...
At a dinner party recently, the question began to circulate. I could feel it coming my way, and had my usual habits at the ready–mumbling something about “a sort of executive coaching” or “productivity training”, suitably vague to move...
A few weeks ago in my blog I asked people to have a look through their reminders and to send in their favourite Projects, Next Actions, and Someday/Maybe list entries. In our blogs over the last (can it be?) four years our goal has always been to inform and inspire....
It’s September, and change is in the air. While January is of course the big season of new beginnings, we find that a lot of people think of September in a similar way. You have a holiday season behind you, the kids are starting a new school year, and you’re...
“You work too hard to be successful.“ Tom had been having a quick look at his e-mail under the table of the sidewalk café, but this last sentence from across the table jolted him back to reality. He considered himself a moderately successful individual, so he was a...
One of the clients I worked with recently had quickly understood GTD as a concept and wanted to do it, but was struggling with actually doing it consistently. He finally cracked the problem when he clarified why he wanted GTD, and what it would get him if he...
