I mentioned in a
prior post that I have been looking for someplace on the internet where I could find a serious discussion about the philosphy behind Microsoft Outlook. I hoped that it would include those who developed the software.
Well, I found a website that might be serious.
Check out this link: […]

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I think that
this New York Times article is an interesting one.
It makes the case that there is no such thing as “clock time” and that there is only time that is experienced in the mind of human beings. We treat time as if it were money - something that can […]

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I had the good fortune to attend a training course conducted by
Tom deMarco and
Tim Lister. (I may be swapping an “i” for an “o” in their names, and my apologies go to them if I am.)
Tom and Tim were experts in software productivity back in the early 1990s, and their research revealed a […]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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