In Perfect Time-Based Productivity, I glossed over an assertion that’s been made by a number of notable people, including David Allen, Dr. Brigitte Claessens and Earl Nightingale. It boils down the following: Time cannot be managed, therefore time management is impossible. In both my books …
Read MorePut on Your Thinking Cap! [Guest post]
Most people arrive at their desks and the only thing scheduled in their calendars are meetings; that is, places to put their bodies. If you are slightly more evolved in the management of your time and productivity, then along with meetings, you also have scheduled …
Read MoreAnswers on Quora
I just put a post up on the 2Time Labs website with links to some interesting time-based productivity questions I have been answering on Quora – the question and answer, social website. I invite you to come on over as it’s the most active place …
Read MoreDr. Melanie Wilson interview on SkedPal [podcast]
I sat down a few days ago to have an in-depth chat with Dr. Melanie Wilson about the different ways we are using SkedPal. It was a fascinating conversation that really just scratched the surface of what we have discovered in the past year. It’s …
Read MoreTechnology that Stops Meeting Time Grabbers in Their Tracks
Time Grabbers are colleagues who have found novel ways to waste your time. In this column, I explore their ability to do so via meetings that either should never have been called, or are badly run. I suggest a few technologies that already exist plus …
Read MorePlaces online to have a time management conversation [Infographic]
I regularly visit the best forums on the Internet to find conversations related to time-based productivity. Unfortunately, they are scattered far and wide so I put the best ones together in one place on this page, right here on this website. If you are looking …
Read MoreExplaining My Absence and Why You Are Invited… to Join a Beta
I’d like to share with you a discovery I recently made and why I’d like you to join me in a private Beta Test. Some may have noticed that I have disappeared, dropping from my regular routine of updating my blog and podcasts. The reasons …
Read MoreImplementing Strategy? Try Holding Meetingless Meetings
What should executives do about their strategy execution problems? Here’s a simple idea: schedule time to execute strategy with Meetingless Meetings. The idea is a simple one. After leaving a strategic planning retreat and assigning each project to an individual, block out time in each …
Read MoreOptimizing Your Time… What’s the Best Way?
Recently, over at the 2Time Labs blog, I wrote an article about optimizing your time. It’s an interesting read and it’s gotten a bit of traffic – if you have already completed the book it may explain a few of the trickier concepts from a new …
Read MoreInterview with Michael Einstein
Recently I interviewed Dr. Michael Einstein via podcast on the topic of email overload. Specifically, we looked at what must be done to manage all the different channels of information we have access to, plus all those that are likely to be added in the …
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