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I think I should buy shares in 3M - the people who invented Post It Notes.
I seem to use them all the time when running workshops - they’re a great tool to use for rearranging complex information, to try and make sense of a problem. One of the main techniques I...
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Triathlon Training Planner
Is this the world's best Excel-based Triathlon Training Planner?
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Archive for December, 2006
Post-Its. More than ‘While You Were Out’
Courting Controversy - “Mr President” Song
The Amazing Group is a local company that does . . . er . . . amazing things, all based around creating innovative on-line products and services. It’s CEO is Paul Campbell (no - not the Canadian actor) - one of the nicest and most focused people I’ve ever met.
Their latest thing is Amazing...
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Gates for President / Atheists Come Out of Closet
When one of my favourite bloggers (/grumpy old men) mentioned a Dilbert posting, I just had to read more. Especially in the context of Bill Gates running for President!?
Scot Adams has noticed that atheists, with Richard Dawkins leading the charge are coming out. In the wake of 9/11, it’s acceptable to not believe in...
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Quality Work & Service
Mark Graban at Lean Blog’s just finished reading Managing the Professional Service Firm by David Maister, and raises an interesting point:
“Quality Work Does Not Mean Quality Service”
‘Work’ is the stuff you do, while ‘Service’ refers to the overall customer experience - what’ll keep them coming back for more. You can do a great job,...
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Tidy Desk
There’s a saying that a tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind. (Or that a spotless house is the sign of a wasted life . . . )
With VPNs and the like, more and more of us work from home, where there’s no boss to drop by and be horrified at the...
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Friedman, Darwin and The Crunch Point
Kevin Cryan wrote a short explanation of Simon Caulkin’s column in today’s Observer.
It seems that the failures of modern management are no better or worse than we’d have seen 30 or 40 years ago.
Despite the growth like topsy of MBAs, we’re seeing little improvement in the quality of decisions that managers take. Indeed, although...
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Remember Time Manager?
I was running a workshop this week, and one of the participants had obviously just discovered that Outlook does more than just Email. He’d discovered ‘Tasks’, which held the promise of efficiency and memory as yet unachieved.
I still get caught by this in Daylite, as I schedule stuff into the future (specially sales /...
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