by Todd Brown | 16 Mar 2017 | Clarify, Organise, Todd Brown's Blog |
If you’ve been to one of our seminars or had a bit of our coaching, you’ve no doubt heard us talk about ways of working that allow you to deal with email backlog. If you’ve attended one of our two-day seminars and implemented the new ways of working in your email, you...
by Miles Seecharan | 13 Oct 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing |
In ‘The Land of the Rising Sun’ during the 1990s, the madogiwazoku – which is Japanese for ‘the window tribe’ – were ageing employees who were no longer seen as useful to the organisation. However, since there was a reluctance in Japan’s corporate culture...
by Miles Seecharan | 15 Sep 2016 | Blog, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Weekly Review |
As he lay dying by the railway tracks the local MP for Liverpool, the Right Honourable William Huskisson, must have thought… “Dash it all… I didn’t see that coming!” On this very day in 1830, a train service was launched connecting Manchester, the greatest...
by Miles Seecharan | 18 Aug 2016 | Blog, Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise |
It’s a sun-filled summer afternoon and you’re strolling happily down the street when a flash of light catches your eye from pavement ahead. You instinctively tell yourself it’s probably just shiny litter but your eyes linger, widen and then sparkle with delight. Yes,...
by Robert Peake | 7 Jul 2016 | Organise, Planning, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Weekly Review |
Like so many of us, I have a love-hate relationship with the alarm clock on my phone. I often hate how early it wakes me up, but of course love that it does so reliably. Like the bookmark, whose simple virtues I extolled in a previous article, the alarm clock is...
by Robert Peake | 23 Mar 2016 | Engage, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Weekly Review |
Taking on a new goal can be easy when the path to get there is clear, and the steps along the way are fun. However, for those parts of life that are ambiguous or unpleasant, creating and holding to a vision of success is all the more important. I recently lost my...
by Robert Peake | 26 Nov 2015 | Capture, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog |
“The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.” -Ernest Diminet It is getting harder to focus in the information age. By “focus” we tend...
by Robert Peake | 10 Dec 2014 | Blog |
Scalability is the holy grail of good business practice–both for big companies looking to get bigger, and one-person bands just starting out. The Getting Things Done (GTD®) method is an extremely powerful approach to “scale” an individual’s...
by Robert Peake | 18 Jun 2014 | Blog |
Recently, I touched on how Areas of Focus can help you to keep areas that matter to you on track and in balance individually. This particular horizon of focus is also incredibly useful to teams. In the spirit of the current World Cup football matches, I’d like to...
by Robert Peake | 27 May 2014 | Blog |
“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?” ― Rabbi Hillel Organisations have systems–from organograms to annual reviews–designed to ensure that the right people focus on the right...
