Category Archives: Productivity

Self Esteem and Time Management

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Bruce Keener

If you have digested Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits and/or David Allen’s Getting Things Done, you know more than enough to manage your time well. That does not necessarily mean that you are managing your time well, though. For example, knowing … Continue reading →

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Featured Productivity and Business Books

Posted on March 20, 2010 by Bruce Keener

This article discusses (1) a couple of specific books that will be of interest to you, (2) a new product by Harvard Business Review, and (3) a great resource of book summaries. I am about half-way through Your Brain at … Continue reading →

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The Cost of Wasted Attention and “Being Always On”

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

You may have read my most recent article and thought to yourself “Keener is an old man that just can’t keep up with today’s pace of information flow.” Yes, I am an old man by some standards, but I can … Continue reading →

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Adjusting Your Information Flow – Part 2

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Following up on yesterday’s post, I am continuing to delete feeds from my feed reader. The two major ones deleted today were Mashable and Gigaom. I looked into scaling back on Lifehacker by trying to find a way to subscribe … Continue reading →

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Adjusting Your Information Flow

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Are you fed up with the amount of information that flows your way, particularly all the stuff from the online world? Me, too, and I have been fed up with it for some time. An information scientist recently noted that … Continue reading →

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Short Review: Making It All Work

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Bruce Keener

I’ve just finished reading David Allen’s Making It All Work and thought I’d share my impressions with you. First off, a little bit about how I read it. It is a short book, and I probably could have read it … Continue reading →

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Are You Using Checklists Enough?

Posted on January 16, 2009 by Bruce Keener

The Independent recently had an interesting article on how a checklist might reduce a hospital’s death rate by almost 50 percent. Having a list of questions like Right patient? Right limb? … may seem simplistic, but can be life-saving. I … Continue reading →

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Can You Trust Your GTD Trusted System?

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In our recent discussion of mind sweeping, you probably deduced, rightly so, that you will not really trust your GTD system if it doesn’t have everything in it that interests you. Another way that a GTD system can become untrustworthy … Continue reading →

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The Biggest Reason for Failing with GTD

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In the recent Lifehacker interview with David Allen, David was asked where most folks “fall off the GTD wagon.” He replied: “Most folks don’t take the GTD tools far enough to really get the benefits. They don’t really do a … Continue reading →

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Processing Information When There’s Too Much of It

Posted on January 6, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In this day and time, we are all required to process a lot of information. This can have several consequences, including: Some of the noisy information (undesired information that is not useful) can drown out the useful information. Some information … Continue reading →

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