A couple of weeks ago, we took a short family trip to Los Angeles. We live in San Diego, so even factoring in LA traffic, a short trip is feasible.…
Beyond Managing Posts
There have been several articles about Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and holacracy lately- probably the one at the New York Times is the most prominent. I’m intrigued by the idea of…
I’m not sure which people complain about more: meetings or status reports. I think the complaints about both come from the same place. Both tools are often misused, or at…
We all like to think that we’re impartial in our decisions, both at work and in our personal lives. However, research tells us that we aren’t– no one is. We…
I met Ada Barlatt when we were on the same panel at the Beyond the Professoriate conference. She had a lot of smart things to say on that panel, so…
The second (and final) installment of my Get More Done class was this morning. I had a lot of fun putting the class together, and was pleased with how it turned…
I’ve been absent from this space for awhile. That’s not because I am lacking for topics I want to address- in fact, I have quite a backlog of posts I’d…
At its heart, project management is about getting things done. For as long as people have lived in groups, they have needed to work together to get things done. People…
I have a really interesting post brewing, based in part on the excerpt from Bob Wachter’s Digital Doctor that has been making the rounds in my little corner of the…
My third article for Chronicle Vitae went up last week. It is about how improving your personal productivity is both simple and hard. I’ve gotten a lot of nice responses to…