September 2010 Archives
Luis Suarez talked about the importance of focus and the issues associated with multitasking. And he provided pointers to many useful discussions and solutions. Namley: do one thing at a time for a defined period of time.
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Some notes and thoughts on the Clifford Nass interview at GigaOm. "Video: Multi-Tasking is Bad for Your Brain. Here's How to Fix It."
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Steve Jackson has a nice pair of articles in Business Review Canada on applying Theory of Constraints at a small manufacturer (furniture).
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It's Student's Syndrome: waiting until the last minute to do anything, usually because they have plenty of time - and because there are many other things to do instead. Only it is worse than I had previously thought.
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It is so important to tie changes to outcomes and set expectations for new behaviors and new actions for people. It is difficult to change ingrained behaviors if people don't know what else to do.
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One of the fun things about knowledge work is that it is flexible and often there are many ways to solve a problem. But one of the key things that you need to know is where you want to be when you are done.
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A review of the TOC Handbook chapters on project management. It's good stuff but very dense. This is close reading and re-reading material, not something to read when you are tired.
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Knowledge workers have to have tolerance for ambiguity in the information they have, and enough courage to move forward under that uncertainty.
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I had a pair of podcasts piped into my ears that were on very similar topics: how do people manage with their own time and attention AND manage that of other people. It is about respect!
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A couple friends on Twitter linked to Dennis McCafferty's CIO Insight slideshow with "10 Clues That You're a Workaholic" which came from consultation with doctor of psychiatry David Krueger. The piece also provides four suggestions on ways to get out.
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A couple of podcasts on giving feedback provided some common advice and some conflicting advice. Interesting. The key though: feedback is supposed to help change behavior.
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The recent American Management Association "Leader's Edge" newsletter contained an article by Rick Maurer on change management - or failures in change management, Why So Many Changes Fail-and What You Can Do About It. Given that I've been reading a bunch on the topic recently, the article struck me.
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In the latest McKinsey Quarterly, Eric Matson and Laurence Prusak have a brief article on Boosting the productivity of knowledge workers. They highlight five key barriers that come out of their research on knowledge workers and their interactions: physical, temporal, social / cultural, contextual, and temporal.
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I'm having a new look at RSS Bandit as an RSS reader. I really want to like it for threading, which may not be as valuable anymore. And the user interface has some differences that have me holding back liking the application.
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Eli Goldratt has a followup article on The Power of Cause and Effect in which he urges companies that have used Theory of Constraints to come out of the closet and talk about it in order to teach their competitors and help the entire supply chain survive.
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Either RSS is dead, or it isn't, depending on who you follow. Here I give some thoughts on how I'd like RSS readers to work for me, rather than doing the simple job of aggregating everything into streams.
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I have a friend who is curious about competitive intelligence for his large, geographically dispersed company. Can anyone point me (and my friend) to some better resources around doing "competitive intelligence" by asking people within the company to work together to develop the intel?
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Realization's Project Flow 2010 conference was loaded with customer case studies and interesting discussions in the hallways. I thought there were some interesting themes and ideas across all of the presentations.
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Ram Charan gave the keynote talk at Project Flow 2010 today. His theme is related to his research and writing on the topic of Execution and driving performance in companies. His suggestion to the attendees was fairly simple: align yourself to the issues that the CEO faces, and you will be able to help both yourself and the company.
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Realization repeats their mantra throughout the conference and in many of the customer presentations. The mantra elements: 1) Pipelining. 2) Buffering. 3) Buffer management.
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How are projects measured today? How should they be measured?
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My brief review of John Kotter's "The Heart of Change." Throughout the book, Kotter emphasizes two things - moreso than in Leading Change. One, leading change is all about changing people's behavior. And two, the path through all the stories is about "See, Feel, Change."
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