Journaling is an excellent way to track your activities, capture thoughts and ideas, and generally empty your head when necessary. Almost all of the popular productivity techniques involve some sort of “brain dump” or “mind like water” philosophy. The dilemma comes to separating work from home. I’ve heard it advocated to not separate them, but […]
One of the most difficult and inconsistent people I’ve had to manage over the years has been…yes, you guessed it…me. As a project manager I’ve worked with all kinds, from the strong silent types to the prima donnas that can move the world with a finger…and make sure you know it.
The challenge truly comes down […]
Dick Bolles is very well known for his annual book: What Color is Your Parachute? This is probably the best known book on job hunting and career change.
I love the image of a parachute gently helping you land a job or a new career yet most job hunters and career changers I know don’t feel like […]
If you leave messages in your Inbox, you are insane. Okay, there I’ve said it.
Every message left in your Inbox adds psychic weight to you. And this weight can be awfully heavy over time. On average, information workers (that’s you) get over 20,000 messages in a year (see Scary Email Math ). If you […]
Before I started my Getting Things Done practice I had some vague ideas about what I wanted to do with my life and where I wanted to go with it. I had not done any serious thinking about priorities or how to get where I wanted to be in the future.
The process of creating a […]
My work day got off to a perfect start when I pulled into the parking garage. A quickly-printed sign was taped to the passkey reader. It read something like this:
Please do not drive the wrong way down the garage ramp. The ramp is for driving up and for parking. People […]
In about 10 years the number of young people getting into the workplace will no longer be enough to replace retirees.
Tim Cork, a career coach, stated in The Globe and Mail, “if you are fifty-something and you can expect to live into your 80s, you should be thinking of this as half-time and not the […]
“Do you have a pen I can borrow?” At a recent ASTD conference session, not one but two people around me asked this question. Here we were, about to hear one of the world’s experts in our field and two highly trained professionals didn’t have a pen!
Several months ago I read a post (I wish […]
Dov Seidman’s book, How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything, has some of the best information for organizational leaders in the new Web 2.0 economy. Like the The Cluetrain Manifesto before it, How describes the evolution of the business world from the hierarchical methods of the Industrial Revolution to the interconnected methods of the […]
When was the last time you tried out?
What did you try out for? Did you make the cut?
As the father of 3 sports-playing-teenagers who have experienced a wide range of tryouts I thought I would tryout for Slacker Manager. I feel like I am in a hockey rink about to show my backward skating as […]
As a manager, nothing is more important to me than my team. I do everything I can to ensure my team is successful and has the tools they need to do what they do best.
Like all good managers, I focus on their strengths instead of their weaknesses, and I get them as much training as […]
My laptop was running slow (as usual) and I was cursing Microsoft - usual too :) .
I tried various tweaks including turning off fancy graphics and deleting temporary files.
Final step - defragment the disk.
This is where i met my nemesis - it took 4 hrs and 26 minutes to defragment a 40GB disk - […]
Like the post title says, I’ve sold Slacker Manager and the blog needs a new author. Which story do you want to hear first, the one about selling the blog, or the one about the search for a new author? Let’s start at the beginning…
It’s been a good few years and Slacker Manager has served […]
I’ve been remiss in whipping up this review. I’ve been reading a crazy hodgepodge assortment of books lately, only some are business-related, and I forgot to post this one. Which is a bummer because I could’ve convinced you to read it a couple of months ago.
I loved Berkun’s last book, The Art of Project Management, […]
By now we’ve probably all suffered the ill effects of poor email habits. Whether that’s the premature punch of the send button, or the too-quickly written screed drafted in anger, or the mistaken “To:” recipients, we’ve all been there and felt the sting.
Adding some strategy to these hard lessons is a new ChangeThis manifesto by […]
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