My first
e-book is available for free for a limited time.
The title is “
2Time Capturing - a Time Management Fundamental for Jamaican Professionals“.
While it is written for the Jamaican professional, it has wide applicability to all professionals. It’s just that I find the environment here in Kingston, in particular, to be so very challenging […]

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The email in-box is nothing more than a mouth.
Huh?
Well, the mouth is an ideal capture point. It allows for temporary storage of a certain amount of food, and performs its function perfectly as a “staging area” for the process of digestion, and sending essential nutrition to the rest of the body.
When food stays […]

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Note: GTD refers to the book or approach called
Getting Things Done developed by David Allen.
In an interesting post at
Matthew Cornell’s blog, he makes the point that GTD is difficult to be reduced to a lighter version, because it is packed so tightly. In other words, the system cannot be made […]

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As
mentioned before, the task of comparing one worker to another in terms of their productivity has become much harder.
However, the results of examining their in-box can give a good insight into how productive they are. In other words, a person who has an in-box of thousands of items is less productive than one […]

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Back in the old days it was easy.
The unproductive guy was the one who still had a bunch of bricks sitting in a pile waiting to be assembled into a wall, while the productive guy was finished long before, and was onto the next task of digging the trench.
Productivity was easily measured by throughput […]

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I noticed during the pilot that the higher belt levels of 2Time were describing systems that were increasingly effective at catching time demands, and preventing them from falling through the cracks.
In other words, they assisted the user in being fully aware of all the time demands he or she had on their hands.
Only when there […]

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