Quote of the week
“Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.”
~ President Ronald Reagan
Until You Have Productivity Skills, Productivity Tools Are Useless
If you only have time to read one article, read this one as it applies to software, productivity tools and most technology [please read]
How The U.S. Forest Service Can Save Your Company From A Crisis | First Round Review
Seven years ago, Krista Berlincourt stepped out of the office, walked to her car, sat down and hoped for divine inspiration. She had just gotten off the phone with a New York Times reporter, one of 87 calls she’d received from every major news outlet over a 48-hour window. Her company was in the midst of a firestorm, as the personal data of an estimated 800,000 customers had vanished on their smartphones. At the time, it was described as “the biggest disaster yet for the whole concept of cloud computing” and is still one of the largest mobile data outages in history. She was the last to leave that day, as the media waited for her response ...
A simple productivity weapon by Andreessen: The anti-to-do list
We all have felt it. We know how frustrating it is to realize we’ve only striked out a couple of items from our never ending to-do lists. We’ve wondered whether clearing out our to-do lists would ever be possible. While today’s powerful productivity apps may help streamline and organize tasks, they certainly don’t solve our problem. Instead of fixating on the things we haven’t finished, what if we focus on the tasks we have achieved throughout the day? We now can with the concept of the anti-to-do list.
The Two Things Killing Your Ability to Focus
Some thoughts on the two major challenges are destroying our ability to focus and what to do about it ...
A Definitive Guide to the Brexit Negotiations
A lot has been written about Brexit, so first from an HBR article and then I suggest you read the Yes Minister version ...
I have spent almost 20 years researching, teaching, writing about, and advising companies and governments on how to negotiate when things seem impossible. In this article I offer an analysis of the negotiation landscape facing UK and EU negotiators, along with advice on how they might navigate the process more effectively. For the record, I have not (at the time of this writing) been asked by either side to advise on the negotiations.
Yes Minister on Brexit
Minister I’m the new minister.
Sir Humphrey Which one?
Minister Which one?
Sir Humphrey Well, I know you’re not the foreign secretary – the hair, you know, big give-away – and you’re not Mr Davis nor Dr Fox.
Minister I’m shocked. I thought the civil service would be better prepared than this.
Sir Humphrey Normally we are. But normally the prime minister puts one person in charge of a new policy initiative, not a job lot ....
Forget Technical Debt — Here's How to Build Technical Wealth
You know that your business runs on code, lots of it, so here's something to think about ...
“It got me thinking about how companies have to invest in mending their code to get more productivity. Just like you have to put a new roof on a house to make it more valuable. It’s not sexy, but it’s vital, and too many people are doing it wrong.”
The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
Good article on bottlenecks on the Internet ....