What to do When the World is Against You

June 10, 2010

Life is tough sometimes isn’t it? You get home from work, collapse on the couch with a warm can of soda, and as it sprays it’s contents over your face and up your wall, you conclude that things are pretty much lined against you. And it is not just that things have gone wrong for [...]

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The 3 Truths of Office Politics

June 8, 2010

In my very humble opinion, the biggest loss of overall production in most people’s lives is in office politics. And I don’t make that sweeping generalisation lightly. Or not that lightly at least. It might not be politics that you see as the immediate cause to any inefficiency, but in 8 out of 10 cases, [...]

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Don’t Believe the Slogans

June 3, 2010

Slogans are powerful tool. Advertising agencies are paid millions to come up with new ones which may capture our imagination, or even go viral on the world’s e-mail system. They are used increasingly in personal development and productivity too. Look at the last couple of books you may have read in these subject areas and [...]

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Bibliosnap – David Seah

June 1, 2010

So here is the third of my Bibliosnap series – a look at the blogs, books, and articles that inspire and enthuse me. These are the writers and practitioners who make me go and do that thing I have procrastinated over, or stop that thing I have worried over. This time it is Dave Seah. [...]

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The Chicken and Egg of Personal Traits

May 27, 2010

What have farm produce got to do with anything? Well, you know the old saying: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” It is a circuitous argument – how do you have a chicken if it wasn’t born from an egg? Yet how was that egg made without an earlier chicken. And this is [...]

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Improving Your Gravitas

May 25, 2010

Had an interesting conversation the other day with an old friend of mine. Like me, he works for a large organisation, and has been slowly working his way up the food chain over a number of years. He likes his job, and is good at his job. But he feels he has hit a ceiling. [...]

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Bibliosnap – James Mallinson

May 22, 2010

Welcome to the second in my ‘Bibliosnap’ series – snapshots of my current bibliography – what I am enjoying reading and what I am inspired by. This time it is James Mallinson. James is a blogger who I have enjoyed following for a number of years, having built up an excellent Productivity Blog, Organize IT. [...]

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Which Tasks Do We Put Off Most Often?

May 20, 2010

So I did a bit of a personal audit. I had a look at which of the (far too many) tasks on my lists were most often put-off. It wasn’t a very scientific exercise, but I put the date each item hit my to do list on the item: “Write entertaining yet informative blog post [...]

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Choosing Your Own Habits

May 18, 2010

We all have habits. This is not a bad thing. Well most of them aren’t. For want of a better phrase, they ‘keep you regular’. Habits run into pretty much everything that we do. Do you drive the same route to work everyday? Do you always have granola for breakfast? Coffee with two sugars? Habits [...]

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Bibliosnap – Hauke Borow

May 15, 2010

I read a lot. I read a lot about a lot. I’m one of those people who can lose days to Wikipedia – you read one article then click on a link that takes you off on a tangent, then from that article another link takes you on another tangent, and so on. This is [...]

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