Michael Dolan

Tips from a GTD Coach on managing reading materials

One of the features of our GTD Connect program is “Ask the Coaches,” which gives members a chance submit email questions to our Coaches on anything challenging to them in learning or implementing GTD.  Here’s an example of one that came in from a member about how to deal with voluminous and relevant reading input. We get this question so often that we wanted to share it with the whole GTD community.

Dear Coaches at GTD Connect,

I am struggling with how to incorporate the GTD methodology into a specific, but important, part of my job.

Surely I am not the first GTD Connect member with this challenge.  I am a Portfolio Manager and Investment Analyst for a wealth and investment management firm.  Daily, I receive about 100 emails containing research reports from various Wall Street and independent research firms.  In addition, there are a few investment-related research websites that I should check on a daily basis to read what reports and analyses have recently been published by those firms. [Read more →]

Scobleizer Gets Schooled! (how Robert Scoble relearns GTD)

Robert Scoble, the well known blogger and ultra popular twitterer (Is that a word?  This new lexicon is getting weirderer all the time ;-) just had a full day of Workflow Coaching from DAC’s own Michael Dolan.

Robert was very impressed and had nothing but good things to say about the experience and the fact that in spite of his working for Microsoft for ages, Mr. Dolan taught him a thing or two about Outlook that he didn’t know.

Anyway, head on over to Scobleizer.com and check it out!