“One of my core management philosophies is that managers should define the ultimate outcomes with their people, but not the specific steps to reach those outcomes. Each employee ought to have the freedom to figure out their own path to the goal.”
Archive for the 'Productivity' Category
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Jan
10
Management philosophy
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Dec
09
Year of GTD
12
Aug
09
Time
Let’s say a meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, has been moved forward two days. What is the new day of the meeting?
Interesting question taken from Mark Frauenfelder via Marginal Revolution (follow the link for the answers).
03
Aug
09
Vocation
In his series of blogs on Christian productivity, C.J. Mahaney writes -
It may be that our vocation is not clear because we have not started with these two questions:
- Where has God placed me?
- Where am I positioned to serve others?
Good focus for me since most of the time I’m thinking about myself…
22
May
09
Procrastination
A quote with which I can really identify from Walter Henegar taken via C.J. Mahaney’s article on Biblical Productivity:
“‘I procrastinate,’ he writes. ‘I’ve been doing it most of my life. If a particular task is even remotely unpleasant, my first and persistent tendency is to put it off. It’s not that I’m lazy; I’m actually very busy. I just wait as long as possible to do the really hard stuff. I always pull it off in the end, but it regularly makes me miserable.’”
18
Mar
09
GTD
I’ve been interested in personal productivity and Getting Things Done for a while, and have recently implemented it. So far, so good. It seems like a recurring theme among those interested in productivity regarding how to get rid of stuff on your to-do list is to either dump it or to never put it there in the first place. I like this quote from GTD (although I never, ever want to slack on parenting):
“You’d lighten up if you would just lower your standards. If you didn’t care so much about things being up to a certain level – your parenting, your school system, your team’s morale, the software code – you’d have fewer things to do.”
It does feel good to just make a conscious decision to just accept the fact that some of the things I’ve been “meaning to do” are just never going to get done. So. Be. It.
02
Mar
09
Workday Quality
I found this picture at lifehacker. Do you think you can go a whole weekend without checking e-mail?
