by guest | 5 Sep 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing, Working Standards |
Mike Stenberg, Head of Digital Marketing at Siemens AG, is a long-term personal user of GTD®, and has implemented it on several teams that he has led or consulted for. Returning from vacation to find an email inbox with hundreds of unread emails is...
by Edward Lamont | 11 Jul 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise |
When we started the business 10 years ago, ‘inbox zero’ was a bit of a holy grail for our clients. If we let slip in conversation that we had a means of attaining and sustaining that standard, ears pricked up all Spock-like. A decade later, most still like the sound...
by James Harwood | 30 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Team |
How easy it is to feel smug, you’re up and running with GTD®. You’re completing a Weekly Review®, your ‘ins’ are at zero, your lists are in order, higher horizons aligned and you’re looking through your ‘waiting for’ list to see who you can chase to prove your system...
by James Harwood | 4 Jan 2019 | Capture, Clarify, James Harwood's Blog |
Those of us who work with our email inboxes regularly ‘at zero’ are aware of the many benefits this brings. It is therefore a surprise, when trying to encourage others to do the same, that their first response is often along the lines of “I don’t care that I have...
by Todd Brown | 2 Nov 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Todd Brown's Blog |
This week, I talk about how obsession with certain parts of the GTD® practice may not always necessarily be the most productive approach.
by guest | 29 Jun 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
James McBrien is Managing Director of Clearwater Advisers Ltd. Clearwater specialises in showing talented individuals how to be great communicators. We show people how to be natural when under pressure. As well as running individual and group coaching programmes we...
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 | 8 Dec 2016 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
We don’t usually see delegates bursting with frustration in our GTD seminars but in one of my former lives it was a sign that a workshop was hitting the mark. That life involved readying business-people for international assignments and the card game ‘Barnga’ was a...
by Edward Lamont | 20 Aug 2015 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
Like much of Europe, I’m off on my summer holiday. Unlike much of Europe, I’ve had a an e-mail arrive with a question about how to handle e-mail while on holiday. What to do? The sender did a seminar a year or so ago, and since then has been working at implementing as...
by Edward Lamont | 18 Jun 2015 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise |
When – in desperation – I first skimmed the book Getting Things Done back in 2004, I had a number of epiphanies. One of them was that there were people who were regularly able to empty out their e-mail inboxes. This information, in and of itself, re-defined the game I...
by Robert Peake | 11 Jun 2015 | Clarify, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog |
We have all seen the automobile ads where their makers claim to be “redefining performance” in their industry. The truth is, we speakers of English have been redefining the very word “performance” for some time, and the trajectory is somewhat...
by Edward Lamont | 28 May 2015 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Stress and Wellbeing |
One of the clients I worked with recently had quickly understood GTD as a concept and wanted to do it, but was struggling with actually doing it consistently. He finally cracked the problem when he clarified why he wanted GTD, and what it would get him if he...
by Edward Lamont | 15 Oct 2014 | Blog |
Back in the winter of 1976, a low-budget boxing movie came out of nowhere to take the world by storm and win the Academy Award for best picture. You’ll have guessed by now that it was ‘Rocky’, and for this 13 year-old boy it was huge. Epic. Transformational. I pretty...
by Todd Brown | 29 Apr 2014 | Blog |
Last week my father had a birthday, and it’s got me thinking about celebrations. We celebrate things that represent progress, like the calendar reaching another milestone; though in my father’s case he says he would prefer not to be reminded of the number of...
by Edward Lamont | 18 Feb 2014 | Blog |
One of our biggest fans complained a few weeks back. After years of positive feedback about these blogs, he took the time to let us know that he was not satisfied with one of them as he did not feel it was specific enough about what he should actually do as a result...
