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Jason Fried at 37 Signals offers his reflection, "Things suck when you don’t give them your full attention." Read his post.
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Ten New Rules for Project Managers
By Hal, Project ReformerThese ten ideas will dramatically improve your projects. Are these ten rules the top ten? You decide. But don't take too long. Share these rules with your team. Your team members are sure to help you carry them out!
On the side...
- Social Media for Supporting Projects
06/01/2009I did an interview with Bas de Baar via Skype video. We discussed how my company is using collaborative tools in support of our clients' projects. Enjoy!
- Pursuing an Elegant Foreword
05/28/2009Did you catch the Foreword to In Pursuit of Elegance
? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
- Lean Project Blog 50 Posts and Growing
04/25/2009The Lean Project Coaches hit the 50 posts mark on Friday. Quite a milestone for just 6 weeks blogging at Coaches Corner. They are writing on all aspects of lean projects. Tap into that for your projects.
- Beginner's Mind Leads to Mastery
04/23/2009Chris Slivon shares a bit of her journey in being a lean coach in the post
Knowing and Not Knowing where she and others write for Lean Project Consulting's Coaches Corner. - Do You Kaizen?
04/16/2009
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Daily improvement to make our jobs safer, easier and more interesting is a corner-stone for Toyota. My colleague Rebecca Bettler describes how Quick 'n'Easy Kaizen is even more powerful when it's team sport. Read A Hidden Beauty...
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- Learn about TWI the Basis of Lean
04/15/2009Learn about the TWI approach from the only Senior Master Trainer in the US. Patrick Graupp will introduce you to this landmark program: Webinar.
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- Do You Have an OASiS for Planning on Your Project?
04/14/2009Adopt this mnemonic for your project environment. Thanks Matt for writing about it.
- Start using Project Management Hash Tags on Twitter
04/06/2009Raven is consolidating project management hash tags for use on Twitter. Thank you Raven!
- All Ya Gotta Do Is Ask
03/25/2009Read the latest story of how green meets lean, or should I say kaizen? It's a Wall St Journal article that you don't want to miss.
- Let's Speak so We Can Be Understood
03/25/2009It irks me when people play games with their writing. It wastes the readers' time, turns them off to what one has to say, and creates idealogical warfares. Write clearly...for the readers. Sorry for this outburst. Let's speak (and write) so we can be understood. Our projects will benefit from that.
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You can actually find brain science studies that support the concept that Multitasking Makes you Stupid.
When researchers looked at functional MRI and other measures of brain activity here is what they found in a study published a couple years ago that briefly made headlines …
“The resources available for processing visual input dropped by 29% if the subject was trying to listen at the same time.” Think about that… when you read while you listen your brain shuts off almost a third of the grey matter you usually listen with. And that’s not all.
“The brain activation for listening dropped by 53% if the person was trying to process visual input at the same time.” Once again, your brain turns off over one half of its listening cells when you trying to read at the same time.
Looks to me like, trying to Multitask shuts down one third to one half of your brain compared to doing things one at a time. It seems we have a clear choice… do one thing well or try to do two things at once and do them both poorly.
My two cents,