Jeffrey Philllips has a GREAT post on how to make your meetings more effective. [here]

I had already started applying these instinctively, but to see it codified gives me hope that we can pound this into a few people’s skulls. It is a serious contributing factor to people failing at GTD.

When you start to actually analyze the meetings you attend, ask yourself some basic questions:

• Was the organizer prepared?
• Was it clear who the organizer was?
• Did this meeting actually require your attandance?
• Were you expected to take a next action?
• Is another meeting necessary to report on your next action, or can it be done informally?
• Do you consider the meeting a success?

If you pass along your comments to the meeting organizer, or simply talk to that person informally, you may be able to evolve meetings in your organization into useful activities.

TECHNORATI: GTD, Meetings, Lifehacks, Organization

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Jeffrey Phillips has some great advice on getting unstuck. [here]

The last time I got seriously stuck was after September 11. Everything seemed to grind to a halt. So, in order to change gears, I started to play with Linux on my laptop. Eventually I got proficient enough to spend 3 months working exclusively on Linux.

Right now, I can feel the mud sucking my wheels deeper. I wonder what I will discover this time.

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Jeffrey Phillips of Thinking Faster has a great post on why loyalty is still vital in the age where job security no longer exists.

If you have lost the loyalty of your employees or you pigeon-hole your excited and inventive digital generation employees into narrow and rigid job functions, how up-to-date is your resume?

Or maybe you enjoy working for the a government agency.

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