All in personal effectiveness
Thomas Vander Wal found an interesting article on a prototype e-notebook (not a lab notebook, software to record web-notes): Building a Web Based E-Notebook The Journal of Digital Information has an article on Implementation Challenges Associated with Developing a Web-based E-notebook by Yolanda Jacobs Reimer and Sarah A. Douglas. This Journal...
Denham Grey talks about PKM (personal knowledge management) PKM to me is a paradox - knowledge in my world is socially constructed - it is not about organizing your thoughts, learning to use tools or developing individual competencies - it is about dialog, community and collaboration. He has some interesting comments...
I have a lot of thoughts running about my head after the AIChE conference. One of the topics that happens to have a lot of blogosphere crossover recently is working with limited resources, whether in the lab or in business.
Jeremy Wright in a June 2002 article at A List Apart gives a good summary of Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory that is very similar to a demonstration that Steve Covey does in his time management workshops. Here is the important bit: I strongly encourage everyone to use at least...
Thomas Vander Wal has been thinking about the Personal Information Cloud of devices and information that roam around with you. iPIM and Chandler have a chair at the Personal Info Cloud There are two articles that are direct hits on managing information for the individual and allowing the individual to use...
iWire: iMax: AWSOME The Guardian's Online supplement today has a rather nice article about office e-mail; nice not least because of a lengthy quote from iSociety's own Max Nathan. Its all sensible stuff rejecting that man from Phones4U who decided to ban office e-mail as a poorly disgused PR stunt (surely...
The Satir Change Model, as explained by Dale H. Emery, is change in response to a foreign element that creates chaos while I figure out how to deal with the change. Ideally, the end state leaves me in a higher perfroming state than where I started.
Today's Chicago Tribune had articles about the managers for both the Cubs and the White Sox. Since the Cubs might be getting into the playoffs, the article about Dusty Baker talked about how his style has taken them this far. It mentioned the concept of Emotional Intelligence a number of times...