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Simply Better – Taking one challenge at a time

June 23rd, 2010

How it started

A few months ago I’ve read the book “The Power of Less” of Leo Babauta.
An interesting book about simply organizing life about a simplified time management, allowing yourself to focus on the most important things.
Also I’ve started to came across with many articles about ToDo lists and Organizing projects and pros and cons about all of them.

And before that I was saying this thing for months: “Less is more”. So after reading the book, I’ve decided it is time to Walk the Talk and take some initiatives » Read more: Simply Better – Taking one challenge at a time

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Keep the label on the box

April 20th, 2010

Putting labels limits our ability to see other possibilities. To discover and sustain the potential of people around us.

And we are very good at doing this. It comes from early development ages of human kind, when we need to generalize in order to be able to learn new things and move forward.

It is going to a new level, in our times with so much information available. The first option when there is such an abundance of information that a human cannot read/process in one single life-time, is to generalize.

And this is even worse when we used it for people.

We just categorize one of our co-workers as being » Read more: Keep the label on the box

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Time Management Matrix

November 24th, 2009

Related to my post about first things first, I’ve discovered today a good article about Time Management. As my article was mostly focused on handling the tasks you need to make in one day, this is much more generally. It presents a different view about pursuing purpose and handling tasks.

It has some good questions that you need to put to yourself when you start doing a task like “Is this task related to my goals? Does doing this make any difference to me?“. Pay attention to what tasks you are doing and what values they are bringing to your life.

The author of article split the current time management approaches into » Read more: Time Management Matrix

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Twitter like reports

November 19th, 2009

There is too much information around us every where and we are using too much of our time to filter it.

This is why I like to have reports as small as possible, focused only on the content, without any thing added to it.

And looking around I’ve tried to use the twitter idea: express something in no more than 140 chars.

Also for clear understanding I like to split reports in two main components: Things we’ve done and thing we want to do.

And there is a third component that it is not contained in the raport, but a manager should be very interested in it: Thing that might stop me achieving the results.
I’ve got this from the way SCRUM works. In SCRUM they meet » Read more: Twitter like reports

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What tools I use to keep track of my projects

September 16th, 2009

I’ve tried to use many tools and software to keep track of my projects.

I used them one or two days, or a week, then I dropped them, cause they only added more confusing or more stress on my to-do lists.

I tried to use sticky notes put on my monitor with the important things to do in one day.

And then I forgot to look at them or I’ve got used with them and didn’t noticed.

Now I’ve realized that I have a great tool to organize the important things I need to do in one day.

This great tool is » Read more: What tools I use to keep track of my projects

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Simple method to add comments in “see below” format in email

August 3rd, 2009

Just want to share a very simple method to add comments in email in format like: [Name] ….

This is not related to any email client or particularly email service. It can be used anywhere, anytime.

I’m talking about making comments like  » Read more: Simple method to add comments in “see below” format in email

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4 reasons why managers should not make technical decisions

July 17th, 2009

Usually managers tend and like to take technical decisions on behalf of their stuff without involving the team in this decision.

There are of course, multiple arguments that managers say to support this behavior:

- I have much more experience

- I’m a technical person too

- I know enough about the system or about the client to be able to say this

- I feel the direction we are going it is not right

and many more …

Because the Law of Consequence, our mind is trying to deliver as many as possible arguments to support the behavior we are taking.

Don’t let yourself fooled by this. Open your mind.

Ask yourself: Am I, truly the right person to make this decision?

Am I knowing all the facts, expertise, reports, tests to make this decision? » Read more: 4 reasons why managers should not make technical decisions

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