Five Steps to Get Back on the GTD Track

Source: TroyMason
You heard about this new personal productivity system that everyone’s talking about called Getting It Done. You decided to adopt this system and you found that it’s indeed effective in taming the deluge of tasks and information. You took David Allen’s system, tweaked it to suit your style, and you’re functioning like a […]

The Difference Between Managing and Leading People

Source: nickobec
Some time ago, I remember going to a kickoff meeting for a very high profile project that required different departments in the company to cooperate and work together. Each department had their own agenda and wanted to steer the project towards a direction that benefit them the most, and there were a […]

Ride Your Wave of Productivity

Source: danflo
Here’s a little bit of trivia: did you know that you are typically shorter at night than in the morning by about 1/4 - 1/2 of an inch? Just as your body varies during the day, your mind also varies as the day goes by.
Some of us are morning people, while others don’t […]

Business Advice from a Billionaire

Wise Bread has an article on C. D. Spangler, the Harvard Business School alum and billionaire who was interviewed as part of HBS’s series on entrepeneurs. It’s a very good article that summarizes some of the advice that Spangler gave in his interview.
The article was particularly interesting because the author, Julie Rains, actually had […]

ACE Your Way to Success, Pt. 3

This is the conclusion of the ACE series, where I compare it with SMART and EASIER.
Part 1 of the series introduced ACE (Assess, Commit, Execute) which can be used for both simple and large tasks and goals, and part 2 of the series explained in more details of how ACE can be used for the […]