Personal Effectiveness

Merlin Mann – Who Moved my Brain

Posted by Ian Burgess on August 27, 2010 at 9:16 pm

Another excellent Merlin Mann talk on productivity.

Using Rewards to Motivate Staff

Posted by Ian Burgess on December 28, 2009 at 9:14 pm

Over the last few months I have been dealing with issues on how to motivate staff and found this really interesting talk from TED by Dan Pink (who happens to be Al Gore’s speech writer). He touches on practices such as Result only Work Environments definitely food for thought. Starting with a fact that social [...]

Merlin Mann on Doing Creative Work

Posted by Ian Burgess on October 21, 2009 at 9:10 am

I found this audio of Merlin Mann on on MaxFunCon discussing the process of creative work, its realy funny especial the bit about the seduction community and the iPhone. The Sound of Young America

James R. de Piante The Project Manager as a Coach – Leadership in Projects

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 3, 2009 at 7:52 pm

One of the most discussed presentations at the IPMA World Congress 2008, this looks at the role of leadership in project management and the effect of the project manager on the morale of the project team. this video is courtesy of YoungCrew.de.

GTD In Windows Mobile and Pocket Informant

Posted by Ian Burgess on August 28, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Agile GTD Windows Mobile and Pocket Informant

Many of you may have realised by now that I am Getting Things Done user/fan which has helped to focus my work only on productive tasks and then planning my working week much better. One of the main tools that I have used for this over the years has been Pocket Informant and Windows Mobile, [...]

Creating Decision Space

Posted by Ian Burgess on May 14, 2009 at 10:37 pm

Many times the road to ruin begins with the phrase “I was just thinking we could…..” it at this point that the desire to please coupled with not wanting appear to be unable to cope that Project Manager just agrees without understanding the implications the project.

Focus on the Key Tasks – Personal

Posted by Ian Burgess on March 23, 2009 at 11:01 pm

After a long conversation in the station bar at Stonehaven, between an old colleague Andy Byers and myself we spent some time discussing the effect of losing sight of your key objectives has on your life both in and outside of work. How many of us define our own focus that clearly we can actually make [...]

Time/Action Management

Posted by Ian Burgess on September 10, 2008 at 7:27 am

Unfortunately we are unable to manage time and it is once you realise that the only thing you can manage is both others and your own actions. David Allan of GTD fame put it well when he said: “You can’t manage time, it just is. So “time management” is a mislabeled problem, which has little [...]