personal+effectiveness category archives

One of my masters students happened to dredge up a quote from Herbert Simon that nails the problem of information overload. The focus of the quote is on attention, but that is the problem of information overload.

A new-to-me blog by Matt Cornell takes a new look at one of my favorite topics, "How do you measure personal productivity?"

Dan at Newly Corporate has a recent pair of articles on expertise in the business world that I found interesting. These are "5 Ways to Establish Yourself as an Expert" and "The Curse of Knowledge."

Here's another take in the long line of "lots of email" discussions. This time it is "Are You Really Being Paid to Read 200 Emails a Day?" by John Care of Mastering Technical Sales.

The Productivity Show episode #39 with Doug Fisher covers my favorite topic of personal effectiveness AND makes the connection to team effectiveness.

Carol Kinsey Goman has "The Seven-Second Advantage" in the April 2008 AMA Moving Ahead Newsletter that talks about first impressions and how to improve them.

The amount of email one gets on a daily basis or the size of the inbox is a constant source of bragging rights around the business world. It doesn't have to be this way.

Doug Cornelius tells us about his experiments with "Wikis and Household Knowledge Management."

Sharon Richardson wrote last month on "Information overload? Gimme more!" She suggested that, rather than worry about information overload, we should look to what the digital natives are doing.

I just discovered Brad Bollenbach's 30 sleeps blog on "open source personal development. He's got a bunch of great stuff, like this one from December, "Busy vs. Productive."

According to a collection of researchers centered around MIT, In today's knowledge-based economy, it pays to be an "information hub." I am not sure I believe the conclusions, based on the information presented.

Listening to some podcasts on the plane, and I came across the Get-It-Done Guy's rencent entry, "Moments of Truth." I couldn't help hear parallels to Theory of Constraints.

Chris Spagnuolo has an interesting article on multitasking, "The Myth of Managed Multi-tasking," with a great quote from Picasso. I see an interesting link to Theory of Constraints.

A friend of mine had this interesting suggestion for personal effectiveness in 2008: Use the Covey idea of Four Quadrants of Activity Management on your computer's desktop.

Jens Poder has a nice article on his childhood dreams, and it makes me think about my own.