I love the question and your answers to it. Here are three of mine:
- most people don’t realise how hampered they are in their productivity and professional development by not having an effective note taking habit and a “2nd brain” style way of organising them.
- the push system of work (as opposed to pull) where teams push work at each other and then use increasing degrees of senior power and airtime to shout priorities to the top is deeply unproductive and also mentally damaging for many of our staff.
- trying to predict the future on a project of any scale to any great degree of accuracy is largely a waste of time but planning for the uncertainty inherent in such endeavours is essential.
Thanks for your insightful answers Simon. Two and three are thoughtfully provocative. I think you could be more contrarian with the first as few people would disagree with your answer.
Perhaps you are right on #1 but agreement doesn’t mean that many people actually do anything about it!! Only last week I came across a very senior MD who attempts to run his whole work life on post IT notes!
I love the question and your answers to it. Here are three of mine:
- most people don’t realise how hampered they are in their productivity and professional development by not having an effective note taking habit and a “2nd brain” style way of organising them.
- the push system of work (as opposed to pull) where teams push work at each other and then use increasing degrees of senior power and airtime to shout priorities to the top is deeply unproductive and also mentally damaging for many of our staff.
- trying to predict the future on a project of any scale to any great degree of accuracy is largely a waste of time but planning for the uncertainty inherent in such endeavours is essential.
Thanks for your insightful answers Simon. Two and three are thoughtfully provocative. I think you could be more contrarian with the first as few people would disagree with your answer.
Perhaps you are right on #1 but agreement doesn’t mean that many people actually do anything about it!! Only last week I came across a very senior MD who attempts to run his whole work life on post IT notes!