Month: August, 2008
A Guide To Prioritizing By Needs: Tasks You Need To Do
Now we finally come to the top of the needs prioritizing mountain. As I mentioned previously, prioritizing by needs is where tasks are prioritized by whether you need, should, or just want to do them. In basic terms a task becomes a “need” when putting it off any longer would result in drastic consequences. If [...]
Happy Birthday Organize IT! How I Did 2 Years Of Blogging, What’s In Store For The Future And My Favorite Posts
This week Organize IT will be two years old! This is a great achievement for me because most of my hobbies and interests usually succumb to a loss of enthusiasm after just a few months. Two years is probably a record for me and I’m still going strong. In this post I’m going to cover [...]
Inspirational Quotes: Richard Koch, David Allen
Inspirational quotes for 22nd August 2008. Richard Koch: “Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.” Wilt Chamberlain: “They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you [...]
A Guide To Prioritizing By Needs: Tasks You Should Do
Welcome to the second part of my guide covering prioritizing by needs, where tasks are prioritized by whether you need, should, or just want to do them. I’ve already introduced the concept and last week I discussed tasks you want to do. Today I am going to look at the next stage in the system, [...]
How To Stay Productive When Bombarded By Interruptions
This is a guest post by Chris Bowler. I recently returned to work after four months of parental leave. Four months does not seem like a long time, but it was long enough that I forgot about some of the aspects of working on a larger team in the same physical location. Specifically, I had [...]