by James Harwood | 14 Nov 2019 | Clarify, Engage, James Harwood's Blog, Reflect, Weekly Review |
“If I’m in meetings all day from 8am until 8pm, when am I ever going to get time to do this Clarifying and Organising thing?” “Well, quite” I reply, “and what about actually working on all the items you have already put on your lists?” Following this common coaching...
by guest | 6 Aug 2019 | Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
Monika Danner has worked in corporate HR and leadership roles for more than 15 years. She has been a GTD® practitioner since 2014 and is now a certified GTD trainer for Next Action Partners in Germany. “Your projects list is a composite picture of the future you want...
by Todd Brown | 8 Dec 2017 | Capture, Clarify, David Allen, Engage, Organise, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
We’re deep into the season of office parties, mulled wine and mince pies here in London, and as the nights continue to draw in I find myself in a reflective mood. Around this time of year, I like to remind myself of the core ideas behind GTD®, by way of reaffirming my...
by Todd Brown | 8 Nov 2017 | Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
Well, the end of the year is around the corner. Snuck up on you, did it? You’re not alone. The good news is that for many of us, as things slow down toward year-end, we can find the space between the holiday parties to refine our GTD® systems and practices. Here are...
by Todd Brown | 14 Sep 2017 | Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In the week that the latest iPhones were launched, I’d like to encourage you to take a mental journey back to classical Greece, for some helpful advice about modern life. Those of you who have been reading my blogs for a while will know that I’m a history buff, and in...
by Robert Peake | 31 Aug 2017 | Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
“Honey, I just realised – nothing is going to try to kill me out here.” My wife and I were ambling along one of England’s many public footpaths through gentle countryside. I agree it may sound like an unusual observation. But having come from...
by Edward Lamont | 24 Aug 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Engage, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
Not everything in life – or even in GTD – can be illustrated using wood chopping as a metaphor, but it does seem to offer some helpful parallels. I noted some of them a few years back in a previous blog, but this year I noticed a few other lessons that translate well...
by Robert Peake | 4 Jan 2017 | Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog |
“[Once you have learned GTD,] at least you have a wagon.” -David Allen It all makes sense. You want to do it. And yet, you aren’t doing it. If this sounds familiar in relation to your GTD practice, know that you are not alone. The methodology is...
by Todd Brown | 16 Dec 2016 | Blog, Clarify, Organise, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
Well, we’re almost at the end of a year. I type that with a bit of a sigh. And yes, I know that many of you will be very glad to wave 2016 goodbye, and your plans to do that might well include some combination of too many mince pies and too much mulled wine. But if...
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 Stuart Corrigan | 3 Dec 2015 | Organise, Planning, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Stuart Corrigan's Blog |
This month I interviewed Leadership Coach, Marshall Goldsmith. Marshall has just been recognised as the world’s number one leadership thinker. He is a coach to many of the Fortune 500 CEOs and a past president. His forte is behavioural change. In the interview...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Oct 2015 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog, Reflect |
One of Shakespeare’s most famous lines is, ‘All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players’. Fabulous metaphor. Love it. The problem is that – as I’ve gotten a bit older, and the stage has gotten more crowded with each passing year – I can’t always...
