The Threefold Nature of Your Work
You have three categories of daily work. When you understand these, you can better clarify, manage, and renegotiate your total inventory of projects and actions.
You have three categories of daily work. When you understand these, you can better clarify, manage, and renegotiate your total inventory of projects and actions.
If you’re still not handling email as efficiently as you can be, try a 60-minute webinar on email management. The focus will include structuring your email system to support action management, and dealing with backlog email.
You just have to decide what your work is. As the late, great Peter Drucker said, that’s your biggest job, to define what your work is.
While context, time availability, and resources will limit your choices about which to-dos you should tackle next, they still aren’t usually enough to help you decide which will bring you the most value. This is where priority shines—it becomes your strategy.
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There are three common reasons why most people seem to flounder with their personal workflow. At least part of their systems lack one or more of three essential variables: consistent, current, and contextually available.
Ever feel like your email processing would be better if your coworkers just sent better emails?
Question: How do you keep from taking the “easy way out” of answering calls and responding to emails etc., to avoid the high-level work?
It takes less energy to maintain a backlog of zero emails than it does to maintain a backlog of 3,000.
You need to capture the stuff that’s potentially meaningful, you need to clarify what those things mean to you, and you need to keep a series of maps of the results of all of that so you can step back and see it from a larger perspective.
