personal+effectiveness category archives
I hold that the best way to deal with this is to encourage fewer people to send you email. Of course, before that happens you still need some solutions for triaging when there is too much.
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Just think. If you write in public, it is both easier to find you AND when they do, the conversation can be at a higher level. Luis Suarez makes me think.
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There are a lot of interesting conversations happening recently about knowledge management and the value of knowledge sharing or knowledge collecting and what it all means. KM is about taking action.
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My thoughts about David Allen's 2009 book, Making It All Work, an extension to Getting Things Done. I also make a connection to some of my other work, beyond the obvious organizing and prioritizing that come from the book.
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Sure there is a lot of "information" rolling by out there. But we have always filtered it. Here's another way to think abuot it from John Reaves.
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How Smart Leaders Talk About Time is a "Conversation Starter" from HarvardBusiness.org in October. It talks about the the struggle so many businesses have of having too many things to do and prioritizing amongst them. What is a leader to do?
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It's hard to be actively involved in the online world and thinking about how it affects your life and those around you and not know about Seth Godin. Here is an interview with him that makes some connection to how people should operate their lives in today's world.
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Is juggling several tennis balls while telling a joke multitasking? Not according to an interesting discussion from Stowe Boyd.
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Patti Anklam covers about five years worth of research and writing in her extensive summary.
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Is email useful or not? This topic has gotten some energy lately from Luis Suarez and Andrew McAfee (and others). It's clear to me that email is simply not th eright tool for collaboration.
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Shocking news everyone: Multitasking doesn't work. Stanford research shows that it doesn't, at least when walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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Information overload can be considered an individual problem to be solved by many of the rules I've written about in my own journey around personal effectiveness. Or it can be thought of as part of a larger system of people interacting that needs to be addressed with a systematic approach.
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Johanna Rothman suggests that one of the shortest words in the English language, is also one of the hardest to say. So, why is it?
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Sally McGhee has a piece on the things we tell ourselves about productivity at the Microsoft at Work blog.
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After years and years of promises and science fiction and tons of money spent on artificial intelligence research (in which I participated), computers are still slow and not prone to learning from user behavior.
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The Xobni blog has a practical suggestion on making email easier to manage for your recipients with better subject lines.
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There's a potential conflict between Getting Things Done and Just Do It. Here are some thoughts on the topic.
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Craig Roth has posted his view on how the (Enterprise) Attention Management lens can look at the technical side of email to help with the information overload issue.
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With apologies to my dear friend Luis Suarez and his goal of eliminating email, there are just times when email does the job fairly well.
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Mark Foster has an interesting entry, "Acting in One's Own Best Interests." Essentially he suggests that the highest form of achievement comes when people act in their own best interests.
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Craig Roth has an interesting take on the usual "information overload" article which provides an "information overload 101" course. Why not provide a 200-level course instead?
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Imagine having your pick of 30 different fireworks. Each has its own effects, but taken in combinations, they can really light up the sky. That's the idea behind Leandro Herrero's Disruptive Ideas, a how-to follow-on to Viral Change.
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A few people mentioned Jonathan Spira's post on "Defining Productivity for the Knowledge Age." He defines the basic problem and promises more in upcoming writing. It will be interesting to see what he has to say.
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Matt Cornell, productivity consultant, provides us with The World's Simplest Productivity Method, with Bonus Mini-Processing Examples. I'll cut to the chase: I'd always considered 4 D's, having five helps clarify things.
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WissensWert is running a blog carnival on personal effectiveness as it relates to Web 2.0 tools.
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Brian Tracy has a post on Practicing Solid Time Management in this month's AMA Leaders Edge newsletter. I see a lot of connection to solid project management.
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Yesterday, in my outline of the Now and into the Future seminar, I mentioned Lisa Schienkopf's "five questions." I didn't have them then, but a question to the Constraints Management SIG gave me the answer (thanks guys).
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I had an interesting experience over the holiday break. I left work email at work. And I've discovered another advocate of email freedom in the founder of AwayFind, Jared Goralnick.
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Here is a not-completely-frivolous test for the end of the year. How are you doing with Getting Things Done? Do you have perspective? Are you in control?
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Mary Abraham reminds us that Persistence Pays ... when applied correctly. Be persistent in your desire to understand the other side of the fence.
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The problem: I get too much automated email from one of our internal bug tracking system. Yet, I still need to keep up on what's happening with my products.
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Mark Forster has posted his Simplest Time Management Method. Interesting.
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Beth Kanter has an amusing quiz for to test your your personal information overload. I got a 5 out of 20, and provide some of my comments.
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Matt Cornell, "Productivity is neither a cult nor a fad. It's a search for meaning."
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The folks in the Mozilla development labs launched Ubiquity to work on top of Firefox 3. It's gotten a lot of notice amongst the technophilic. But is it ubiquitous?
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In meetings at work today, the term "context" has come up a number of times. As I dove into my interest in knowledge management, context was clearly one of the most critical elements of enabling knowledge transfer.
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"It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow." But the solution isn't through technology alone.
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Jens Poder has a great piece on productivity / multi tasking, "Stop doing half-actions."
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I've had Xobni running on my new work computer since I started in December. Here are some thoughts about how Xobni fits into my worklife.
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My friend, Lilia Efimova is wrapping up her PhD thesis work on the subject of blogging and has a nice summary of a number of "Reasons for using weblog to keep information bits."
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A friend forwarded an interesting quote from the Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living. They key line for me was, "We often forget that the action we are contemplating contains the seed of its result."
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Imagine my surprise to see Andrew McAfee mention the newly-formed IORG - Information Overload Research Group.
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Tony Karrer and Michele Martin are pleased to announce the founding of Work Literacy.
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Joe Ely has a great post that ties the ideas of Work-in-Process (WIP) and Inbox Zero: "Minimizing Work-in-Process for Knowledge Workers."
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Bill Brantley has issued a Call to Action to the Personal Knowledge Management Community to fix up the Personal Knowledge Management entry on Wikipedia. Have a go.
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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.
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A new-to-me blog by Matt Cornell takes a new look at one of my favorite topics, "How do you measure personal productivity?"
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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."
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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.
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The Productivity Show episode #39 with Doug Fisher covers my favorite topic of personal effectiveness AND makes the connection to team effectiveness.
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