“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates
Tag: productivity
Sign Off
I regularly get emails from people whose signature block is more than 20 lines. This is, to say the least, somewhat over the top. (I just cut my longest signature block down to four lines, because I decided that five was too many.) Do you really need that many lines to sign off? (And that’s…
Schedule the Work
The Chokehold of Calendars In my experience, most people don’t schedule their work. They schedule the interruptions that prevent their work from happening. In the case of a business like ours, what clients pay us to make and do happens in the cracks between meetings, or worse, after business hours. This is a really significant…
Time & Attention
Merlin Mann talks about the finite resources of time and attention, and how to manage them.
Once More Into The Meeting
It looks like I’m not the only one who wants to ban chairs at meetings. Scott Belsky thinks it a good idea too. I think his point #1, by the way, is huge. If you’re not getting ‘action items’ from a meeting (stuff you have to actually do), you shouldn’t be there. Go do some…