Personal productivity tools make managing your own workload easier. And project management tools help with wrangling group work. But there's a big gap between the two, and that's a problem. Think about all the tasks on your plate for the next week or so. Some of those...
Have you ever thought you discovered the perfect productivity tool for yourself or your team — only to find that it didn't really make a difference after all? In my latest article for Harvard Business Review, I explain why this happens. And I give some tips for...
Did this happen to you? You discovered a new productivity system and got excited about its potential to help you accomplish more. You vowed that THIS YEAR would be your "Year of Productivity" and then put your new system into action. Then, a few weeks later, you...
Productivity and creativity are closely related. You need both to achieve your goals. So I teamed up with my friend and creativity expert Jen Spencer of The Creative Executive to give you insight into a personal success plan for 2016. Click here to answer questions...
What did you really accomplish last week? If you can’t remember doing anything that matters amid all the email and other busywork, it’s time to power up your productivity habits. Here's list of 15 tips from my Empowered Productivity System to help you learn how to be...
The Secrets to Achieving Goals Now that the New Year is behind us, and the gym isn’t so crowded any more, it made me realize that a lot of people have a hard time achieving goals they’ve set for themselves. In order to make continual progress on your significant...
System, noun: a harmonious arrangement or pattern; a group of related parts that move or work together; any formulated method of plan or procedure. Atul Gawande, world-renowned surgeon, Harvard professor, and author of "The Checklist Manifesto," says that there are...
My work has led me to believe that clutter, whether electronic or physical, but especially clutter of one’s work space, results in stress, because it sends messages to the owner of the clutter that they are not in control, that they are overwhelmed, that there may be...
Several months ago I wrote an article about productivity and time management tools (also called PIMs for "personal information managers"), and I ended that by writing, "the process is the missing piece to using any tool successfully." The most important element of...
Yesterday I wrote about making progress toward your goals as it relates to both happiness and productivity. Today I want to share with you one other interesting result from the Real Simple magazine happiness survey. They reported it as “3 things that the happiest...
