I wrote last month about plans to update my LinkedIn profile.
I just spent a couple of hours doing that - following the guidelines laid down by Krishna De.
In addition to a contact-focussed ’summary’ section, I’ve also added connection request guidelines, my blog’s feed and some Amazon book recommendations - 2 new ‘widget’ apps released by [...]
I recently discovered the “management wisdom” work of Nick McCormick and am looking forward to reading his book, “Lead Well and Prosper”.
In the meantime I checked out Nick’s interesting 6 minute management tips podcast with Dan Coughlin, intriguingly titled “The 1-3-6-Exercise“.
And although the focus of Nick’s site is on management, after listening I was struck [...]
Occasionally my coaching clients have a problem with staying on task.
Oh, they have goals, plans and even the best of intentions but alas, there’s always some crazy, unexpected interruption that derails their progress.
And, naturally enough, they want me to help.
(Well, if truth be told, I too have similar problems from time to time - and [...]
I’ve been interested in mind maps since experimenting with them as a teacher in the early 1980s.
Of course it was pencil and paper back then - which made editing coloured maps a real pain.
Still, there remains something uniquely creative about the low-tech way and I continue to use it for my own impromptu idea sessions.
Nowadays [...]
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
Professor Albert Bartlett
I came across Prof Bartlett’s work while I was googling how to better explain percentage changes to my sixth grade daughter recently.
Having taught Maths & Physics in the UK many moons ago I was intrigued enough to check [...]
One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride - as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
For the past 10 months my weekday morning routine kicked off with a leisurely breakfast around 8am, followed by a walk in the park with Kuri.
Not so Monday 18th February.
On that morning I wrote the outline of this post while riding the 8:11am train to my 6 month consulting IT gig.
Or rather, it was 8:11am [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
There were 3 questions I left you with from this post on time management.
Here’s what I’ve come up with:
Q1- What’s on your DoTO list right now?
A1- Setup Al Secunda interview schedule.
Q2- What’s your current IHTD project?
A2- Create an inventory of the software I’ve bought in last 3 years.
Q3- What is your Project1?
A3- Create next info [...]
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
There’s a plastic stand on my desk, just to the left of my monitor, which can hold 5 CDs.
That’s originally what I bought it for.
But after my “giving up” session I had no need for this one and was thinking of recycling it too.
Then the thought came to me that my goal of “publishing 6 [...]
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
The time management material starts about 2 minutes into this 7 minute video.
(This is an excerpt of module 6 - from the IT Career Engineer Special Report. Now available on CD. But it’s very relevant to anyone making choices over how they spend their time each day. The fundamentals of time management are the same [...]
