Johanna Rothman is reflecting on coaching in "When to Speak and When to Be Quiet." This is a big challenge for me: I love to provide the "answer" when a topic arises and I think I know something.
All in personal effectiveness
Johanna Rothman is reflecting on coaching in "When to Speak and When to Be Quiet." This is a big challenge for me: I love to provide the "answer" when a topic arises and I think I know something.
Dave Pollard has derived "Nine reasons we don't do what we should do," and I suspect there is an even deeper reason: motivation.
The tocleaders YahooGroup has had an interesting thread on a sticky problem in business: how can it be that a company with hard-working people ends up losing money?
Dennis Kennedy pointed to something I hadn't seen before: Brian Eno (the musician, producer, and more) created a deck of cards to help unstick the creating process back in 1975, called Oblique Strategies.
Christina Pikas has some thoughts and questions about the kinds of people for whom blogging works as personal information management. Can scientists jump onto the blogging bandwagon? Does it make sense?
Scott Berkun has a "New essay: how to learn from your mistakes" in which he has some great thoughts about living this life.
Jason at Signal vs. Noise has a Productivity Tip: Completely clean off your desk and only grab things you need, when you need them.
"A computer is just a tool. It's just a hammer. Let's get these tools to as many people as possible, let's teach them how to use it, give them an idea of what they can do with it, and then let 'em go. And that's really exciting." - Leo Laporte
Jim McGee 's latest piece in Enterprise Systems is "Building Your Knowledge Workshop." Given Jim's ongoing analogy of knowledge work as craft work, it only makes sense to think about the craft person's workshop.
The Intranet Journal has an article from Paul Chin on "Dealing with Information Overload." He's got some interesting comments about the effect of having all this information available, primarily it looks like attention deficit disorder.
Chuck Martin has a set of 7 Tips for Getting of Control of E-mail at this week's Darwin Online, many of which I've advocated before.
In Gerry McGovern's current New Thinking newsletter/blog, he has an interesting argument that there is "No such thing as knowledge worker." Some of his thinking coincides with personal knowledge management as well.
Lilia Efimova points to a paper about the "Dynamics of Email Triage" and discusses some interesting ideas about personal effectiveness in relation to how people learn to use their tools.
Fortune has an interview with Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie: "How to Escape E-Mail Hell" with some interesting tidbits.