Archive for February, 2008
Posted in February 29th, 2008
A question I have been asking myself is whether or not there are other fundamentals aside from the 11 that I have identified in the 2Time system.
I believe there may be, and I am wide open to any ideas that others might have with a few caveats that the fundamentals share:
They must be observable repeatable […]
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Posted in February 29th, 2008
One of the aspects of 2Time that I wonder about is whether or not it should deal with the BIG questions of life - Purpose, Values, Vision, Mission etc.
Should I also be in the business of helping people to define their goals in life, and have them become aligned with the loftier themes? After […]
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Posted in February 27th, 2008
I ran across the following post called
“Ready to Test for Your Belt” that echoes some of my thinking about belts, and moving up from one level of skills to another. It originates from David Allen, the author of the book “Getting Things Done.”
“READY TO TEST FOR YOUR BELT?”Lately some rather sophisticated people have […]
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Posted in February 25th, 2008
An article with the above name was published in the Jamaica Sunday Gleaner on February 17th, and can be found at the following link:
http://go-jamaica.com/jobsmart/view_article_details.php?id=221
It echoes many of my thoughts on the topic.
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Posted in February 22nd, 2008
A client of mine shared a common story that I have heard many times. She spent hours entering all her contact information into an electronic device only to have the device die with all the information within it lost forever.
While this may seem to be a good one to blame on the device, […]
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Posted in February 20th, 2008
I am fortunate to have gotten an excellent idea from a reader of this blog to change the way I look at the
11 fundamentals.
In a prior entry, I
split the 11 fundamentals into 2 groups: major and minor. The reader made the point that thie unfortunate language made it seem as if some […]
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Posted in February 18th, 2008
While there have been quite a few posts on various blogs about maintaining a Zero Inbox, or an Empty Inbox for email, I take the opposite tack and assert that an overflowing in-box of a sign of lack of productivity.
This is not meant as a value judgment or a moral conclusion.
Instead, it is meant to […]
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Posted in February 15th, 2008
Recently, I was
interviewed by Amitabh Sharma regarding the
NewHabits-NewGoals pilot here in Kingston, Jamaica.
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Posted in February 13th, 2008
While I was developing the
NewHabits-NewGoals pilot offered in January, I realized that there was a difference between what I called the major components and the minor ones. In this way, the
11 components can be neatly split into 2 groups for easier explanation.
The difference is easy to understand.
The Major components are
Capturing,
Emptying, […]
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Posted in February 11th, 2008
One of the key inspirations behind the 2Time way of thinking happens to be the time and motion techniques I learned as an undergraduate in Industrial Engineering.
The idea behind the technique is simple - observe each physical motion taken by a person performing a task of some kind. Record it, and analyze it […]
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