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Resources for Improving Your Thinking and Decisions

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Bruce Keener

Hacker News has an excellent thread on books that can help you better understand and improve how you think and decide. Although most of the resources are books, there are some that are presented as websites and/or PDFs, and are … Continue reading →

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Making Good Decisions

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Bruce Keener

I recently read a few news items that relate, at least partially, to decision-making, and thought I’d share some key points. In Danny Sullivan’s summary of Google Zeitgeist conference, he quotes Google cofounder Larry Page as saying There are no … Continue reading →

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Keeping the End in Mind with Projects and Goals

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Bruce Keener

I hope my previous post made you keen on the importance of keeping the end in mind. Of course that post referred to the “final end” (what some call “the big chill”), but the principle of keeping the end in … Continue reading →

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Project Management Tip from J.K. Rowling

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Ever wonder what tools authors use for managing a project as immense as writing a book? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could use their tools for managing our more complex projects? You might suspect, as I would have, that … Continue reading →

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Office Politics and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Bruce Keener

In reading an interesting article on office politics today, I was reminded of the power of self-fulfilling prophecy. In particular, Ben Horowitz noted the following in discussing how to handle complaints from one executive about the competence of another: On … Continue reading →

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Productivity and Sheer Will

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Bruce Keener

Entreprenuer Gary Vaynerchuk tweeted the following several months ago: Screw productivity and productivity products, I win with sheer will ….I know I am dumb In other words, he is saying he will not whittle away his life reading productivity blogs … Continue reading →

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Even More Questions to Help You Mold Your Future

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Bruce Keener

This is a follow-on to my previous article that provided a list of questions to help you conduct a GTD 50,000 foot review. In this post, I provide links to other articles that have good questions for you to answer … Continue reading →

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Making Time to THINK

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Bruce Keener

In a comment on one of my recent posts, John noted the following: I’ve been on and off with GTD and Covey many many times through out the years. I could never turn it into a habit and kept searching … Continue reading →

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Are You Solving a Non-Problem?

Posted on May 15, 2008 by Bruce Keener

Have you ever caught yourself working feverishly to solve what your mind had classified as a problem, only to later discover there was no problem at all? Well, it just happened with me and caused me to waste a lot … Continue reading →

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Map Your Way Through the Jungle of Life

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Bruce Keener

This article discusses the use of Mind Maps as an aid for managing your life. Our examples relate to the GTD and/or Covey methods of time management and planning. However, mind maps can be used in a lot of different … Continue reading →

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