Archives for the 'effectiveness' Category

Build Your Network, Part I [experiments in effectiveness]

Having a strong network of personal and professional relationships is key to long term career success in just about every line of business. Building a network is not the same as networking. Networking conjures up icky feelings of forced introductions and lame conversations where each party is figuring out what they can squeeze from the [...]

11 August 2007 | Career, Management, effectiveness | No Comments

Re-discovering the freedom of pure ASCII [terrence randell]

I am fed-up with all my GTD system tweaking (a.k.a. Acute Systemitis) and decided to go back to good old ASCII. I have wasted nearly three full days of work flip-flopping between paper, standalone software and online software thinking “if I just had a better system…”. That’s just plain stupid. The problem is me. [...]

7 August 2007 | GTD, Getting Things Done, Productivity, effectiveness | No Comments