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You may think you’re a Widget-Cranker. You’re not.

And you aren’t (necessarily) an executive, with a secretary – sorry, personal assistant – to manage your tasks and appointments. You fall somewhere in between, and if you compare yourself to other professional service providers you’ll find that you can easily match your working style to other professionals whose work requires constantly managing appointments, tasks,Continue reading “You may think you’re a Widget-Cranker. You’re not.”

Like it or not, investigators are Project Managers.

Are you investigating anything? If you’re a police officer or a civilian investigator then the answer is, “Of course I am, what else do you think I do all day?”. And what is an investigation? It is a project. A project, as defined by the Project Management Institute, is a ‘temporary endeavour with a startContinue reading “Like it or not, investigators are Project Managers.”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

A question often asked in jest – in fact, a question usually asked only in jest – but a valuable enquiry all the same. It’s a valuable time management question. It’s a valuable question because asking it produces answers, and those answers create the opportunity to plan in such a way and to such aContinue reading ““What’s the worst that could happen?””

Self Respect and Time Management

I subscribe to an e-mail from a company marketing their wares as they pertain to time management and yesterday they sent me an email which opened, “Getting organized is a sign of self-respect.” That’s very much, in a nutshell, the raison d’etre for what I promote in this blog and m’book. Early work by CharlesContinue reading “Self Respect and Time Management”

Responding Faster – has slowed us all down.

The world has changed, but it has also remained the same. Recalling the motto, “Everything we do, we do with, for, or because of someone else,” we have always relied on other people to help us get done what we feel has to (could be or might) be done. Always. But in the pre-internet days,Continue reading “Responding Faster – has slowed us all down.”

Three Small Words That Make Life Easier.

“My name is David, I am an addict.” As a student of Stephen Covey’s wide-ranging and deep thinking on personal, interpersonal and organisational leadership I have a nasty habit, perhaps that of an investigator, of seeking to research behind the books, insofar as I have obtained copies of all his pre-7 Habits writing and historicalContinue reading “Three Small Words That Make Life Easier.”

This post proved my point, by accident.

Oh dear. I’ve started trying an electronic To Do List. Why ‘oh dear’? It’s a good little system – it’s Microsoft To Do adapted for Android but synching with my laptop, like OneNote but without the complications (unless I want them, in which case my assessment is that all the Microsoft doodads seem to doContinue reading “This post proved my point, by accident.”