A recent issue of the The New England Journal of Medicine reported on the tremendous safety value of a surgeon's checklist to reduce deaths. Adopting the simple technique of checklists - the value of which for me have always been validated by the required use of them by airline pilots…
Procrastination is the subject of an interesting NY Times article. Apparently, there is some science to this nagging infirmity we all share.
If you don’t belong in that category because while it appears you’re delaying, you’re only trying harder to find a better answer, nice try. There actually is almost no correlation between perfectionism and procrastination.
Also, for those of us who waited until the night before the final and then pulled an all-nighter? The research shows that we do not perform better; we just think we do.
The good news? (more…)
All of us are trying to to do things differently, break old habits and transform our personal and professional lives to avoid that definition of insanity by doing the same thing over and over hoping for different results.That's why, for example, we seem to talk about the methodology of Getting…
For aficionados of David Allen's GTD system for improved life productivity, an interesting article appeared in this issue of Fortune magazine, on newstands now. You can read the article here. A columnist interviewed Stephen Covey and David Allen looking for productivity ideas. The GTD system came out high on the…