The Future of Email: Evolve or Die?
Once upon a time email was novel. People were happy to get email, it was easy to deal with, and it was convenient. It was the wave of the future and it was going to make us more productive.
Once upon a time email was novel. People were happy to get email, it was easy to deal with, and it was convenient. It was the wave of the future and it was going to make us more productive.
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 07.16.2008 | Living
I confess: I can't touch each piece of paper just one time. I can't return every email within 24 hours. I can't maintain a clear desk at all times. I ...
Lifehack.org | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living
There are a great many books, web sites, and training courses today more or less dedicated to the idea that being bored is a major sin, for which the ...
Laura Vanderkam | Posted 06.02.2008 | Living
One of the great things about being a writer is having an excuse to interview fascinating people. For instance: Carol Fassbinder-Orth, a rising young biologist. She grew up on an apiary featuring 100 million bees.
David Allen | Posted 05.19.2008 | Living
When people discover the level of personal organization I work within, they often ask, "Gee, does this guy ever have any fun?! He's so organized!" My ...
David Allen | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living
Maybe this difficulty with letting go of things that we have outgrown stems from the admonition so many of us grew up with to "finish everything on your plate before you get dessert."
Huffington Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living
Are you bored at work right now? Perhaps the reason you're reading this is because you're bored at work right now. And if that's the case, there's go...
David Allen | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living
Many business and personal relationships could warm up if they were more mechanical.
David Allen | Posted 03.17.2008 | Living
There's an old Gestalt theorem: the way out is through. Defining what we could do, and what we are doing right now instead is a lot of what our work needs to be these days.
Wall Street Journal | Ben Worthen | Posted 03.10.2008 | Business
Working late? Blame your computer screen. A new study finds that bigger monitors make people more productive. Researchers at the University of Utah t...
David Allen | Posted 03.03.2008 | Living
Your definition or standard of "stuff" is a very powerful unconscious driver of your behavior and permitted experience.
David Allen | Posted 02.25.2008 | Living
Much of what plagues organizations these days has to do with their processes. And the processes have everything to do with the personal processes of the individuals involved.
Posted 02.21.2008 | Home
I've noticed that one of the hardest things for people to do is to change what they're doing to something better to be doing, when there's nothing rea...
Alexandra Levit | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
The truth is, the same tools that help us get a task done more quickly also prevent us from attending to that task in the first place. E-mail is the biggest culprit.
David Allen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
Often the most tactical thing to do with yourself is dummy work. And one of the best reasons to get organized is to take advantage of that. "Dummy" ...
David Allen | Posted 02.11.2008 | Living
"How do I set priorities?" Because I hear that so frequently, I assume most people think they could and should be doing it better. I have a radical ...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 01.30.2008 | Home
I've found several sites that provide great services that help boost happiness, in one way or another. I've used all of these myself and have found them extremely useful.
David Allen | Posted 01.28.2008 | Living
I have been attempting to understand why it bugs me to hear professional motivators talk about the necessity for "passion" to be successful. Perhaps I...
David Allen | Posted 01.21.2008 | Living
More and more these days I find that among people in my seminars the importance of defining our work is a topic that truly resonates. The challenge ma...
David Allen | Posted 12.31.2007 | Living
It's time to purge. The end of a year is a great metaphorical event to use to enhance a critical aspect of your constructive creativity -- get rid o...
David Allen | Posted 12.24.2007 | Living
A core issue of life and work is this: At any point in time, are you appropriately putting the right amount of attention on the right thing? Are you d...
David Allen | Posted 12.17.2007 | Living
Few people have many good reference points for self-forgiveness and a sense of humor in this world of increasingly too much to do.
Freakonomics Blog | Melissa Lafsky | Posted 12.10.2007 | Business
The conventional employer wisdom has always been that a happy employee is a more productive employee. Countless dollars are spent every year on initia...
David Allen | Posted 11.26.2007 | Living
I'm often asked "Are we really living in a different world than the 'old days?'" Is there something uniquely stressful about the world as we're experi...
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Megan Berry | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business