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28 March 2008 ~ Comments Off

How well is your presentation going?

Birmingham University in the UK used to have something called a “lecture cube” for gauging the speed or uptake of a lecture. It was red on two sides, white on two more and green on the remaining two. Depending on how the students placed them on their desks, the lecturer would see a field of [...]

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10 February 2008 ~ Comments Off

Give yourself a bone

At one of my speaking engagements in a school I asked a few of them what was “on their minds too much” and was told by a student that he wanted to catch up with one of his subjects. So I asked him what he would do to achieve that and he said, “weeeel I [...]

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31 January 2008 ~ Comments Off

The big picture

How do you use GTD to improve management processes in an organisation? How do you ensure that people are working on things that are vital to the company? Something rather exciting has been happening to me in the last few months. End of last year I spent some time working with a department head who [...]

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30 January 2008 ~ Comments Off

Horizons of Focus

The nice thing about GTD is that you can keep coming back to it and discovering a new layer of meaning… I am a little slow on the uptake sometimes, but I finally think I get Horizons of Focus…. you know, the 10,000 foot to 50,000 foot “altitudes” David Allen says ”stuff” turns up at. Sphere: Related Content

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06 November 2007 ~ Comments Off

Back to basics…

When I was a child my school gave us road safety training by teaching us to repeat ”Look Right, Look Left, and if All’s Clear, Cross the Road”. They had to change that when they noticed that some children were standing on the edge of the road, reciting the “Look left, Look Right” mantra and then [...]

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03 July 2007 ~ Comments Off

Knights and lego

You must have noticed: I learn a lot of GTD from doing things with my kids. I find children a good model: the main difference between kids and adults being that grown-ups are way better at inventing some specious reason for the daft things they are doing… Sphere: Related Content

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