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3 minute solution to procrastination

It’s easy to be a part of the procrasti-nation… delaying tasks that take 30, or 60, or 90+ minutes… deriving excuses to self to not-do certain daunting activities. When I remind myself to just start… I...

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see your work. make good choices.

A couple years ago… working with my client, a small medical firm developing their software product for pshycology-based clinics, I noticed that developers were focused on “their” sub-systems. This...

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see your bottlenecks

See It A while back at a client site, I suggested to the nine-person, product development team that we make our work visible. “Huh?”… said the team. I ran down the street to the local office supplies...

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manage your manager

A while back my client-supervisor appeared at my desk. She started talking about what seemed like a new effort. I listened to her for a few minutes while she described this new work. I pointed her to...

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color matters

A while back at a client site, I helped a software development team (of about seven people) see their work, by introducing Kanban. The team was intrigued. On the wall in their open work space, we...

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how the best get better

I read this book years ago. One of the best business books ever. It’s a short and easy read (27 pages). For each two facing pages, one whole concept. A riveting CD accompanying the book. $50. Totally...

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4 tips and a few tools to organize stuff

A few tips and tools to help you manage some of your work life. Manage Tasks Keeping a a simple to-do list goes a long way for staying focused on all that can (and will) happen regarding the chaos of...

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don’t just tell me. show me.

I’ve been using Excel lately, as yet another tool, to visualize project work… simply color-coding cells to provide a quick-glance view-of-the-whole. Sometimes it’s difficult to get others to use a new...

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human voiced resume

  “Are you really posting your resume online, as a blog post, Todd?” Yup.  Weird, ha?  Yup. But it’s not just any resume… it’s got a human voice behind it. I subscribe to Liz Ryan and her HR ways and...

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movin’ on

Hello loyal get LIT followers, Long time, really long, ha? While I have not been blogging on get LIT very much the past year (ok, two), I have been creating. Oh yeah. “Creating what?”, you (might) ask....

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